Rank and organization:
Brigadier General, U.S. Army. Air Corps. Place and date: Over
Japan. Entered service at: Berkeley, Calif. Birth: Alameda,
Calif. G.O. No.: 29, 9 June 1942.
Citation... For conspicuous
leadership above the call of duty, involving personal valor and
intrepidity at an extreme hazard to life.
With the apparent
certainty of being forced to land in enemy territory or to
perish at sea, Gen. Doolittle personally led a squadron of Army
bombers, manned by volunteer crews, in a highly destructive raid
on the Japanese mainland.
