American Valor Quarterly Issue 3 - Summer 2008 | Page 8

Reflections

About Pilots and
Flying

By General James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle
Flying must be learned from the
Jimmy Doolittle (1896-1993) is one of the most admired military ground up. In no other vocation
men in U.S. history. He was already famous as an aviation pioneer is ground work or preliminary
by the time of his legendary raid on Japan on April 18, 1942, for training more important.
which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. In his