Doolittle: Aerospace Visionary

by Dik Alan Daso and Dik A. Daso

Book Overview

On April 18, 1942, Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle led a flight of sixteen B-25 bombers off the flight deck of the USS Hornet on one of the most daring raids in U.S. military history, a low-level strike on Tokyo and other Japanese cities. For this heroic act, he received the Medal of Honor. But, as Dik Alan Daso convincingly argues, James H. Doolittle should be remembered as much more than a famous combat pilot. With a doctorate in aeronautics from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157488669X
• ISBN13: 9781574886696
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.7" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Doolittle

This was an easy book to read. It was hard to put down. Very interesting information, and it made me want to know more about this amazing man who was such a pioneer in aviation.

The range of his achievements lie far outside the war years

Doolittle: Aerospace Visionary by biographer Dik Alan Daso is a close analysis of the life of famous World War II combat pilot James H. Doolittle. Yet the full range of his achievements lie far outside the war years; Jimmy Doolittle was the first person to complete a transcontinental United States flight in a single twenty-four hour period, and won trophies for his record-breaking high-speed flights. Doolittle's aviation skills, his thirst for adventure, his boundless determination, and his unabashed love and promotion of military and civilian aviation make for an informative, uplifting, and very highly recommended biographical profile.