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Add new Web site: Air and Space Forces Magazine - An American Hero. Nov 29, 2024
Anniversary information added. Sep 23, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Feb 28, 2024
Anniversary information added. Dec 10, 2023
Add new Web site: Angelo State University - Doolittle Raid Remembered for Impact. Nov 27, 2023
Add new Web site: Warfare History Network - Jimmy Doolittle: The Warrior from Shangri-La. Sep 15, 2023
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Jimmy Doolittle: Commander of the Doolittle Raid During World War II. May 28, 2023
Add new Web site: U.S. Department of Defense - Medal of Honor Monday: Army Air Corps Gen. Jimmy Doolittle. Apr 14, 2023
Add new Web site: National Park Service - War in the Pacific - General James H. Doolittle. Jun 05, 2022
Add new Web site: California Military Department - California State Military Museums - Biography of James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle. Feb 16, 2017
Add new Web site: MedicineNet.com - Tourette Syndrome. May 27, 2014
Add new Web site: National Aviation Hall of Fame - Biography of James “Jimmy” Doolittle. May 24, 2013
Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Jimmy Doolittle. May 24, 2013
Add new Web site: United States Air Force - Jimmy Doolittle. May 24, 2013
Added historical newsreel. Sep 02, 2009
Media added. May 31, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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