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James
Doolittle

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MEDAL OF HONOR 
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Rank and organization: Brigadier General, U.S. Army Air Corps 
Place and date: Over Mainland Japan, April 18, 1942 
Entered service at: Berkeley, CA 
Birth: Alameda, California. 
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.

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