James Harold Doolittle was born on December 14,1896.  He became an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his daring raid on Japan during World War II.  

Raised in Nome, Alaska, Doolittle studied as an undergraduate at the University of California earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1922. He also earned a doctorate in aeronautics  from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1925, the first issued in the United States.^] In 1929, he pioneered the use of "blind flying", where a pilot relies on flight instruments alone, which later won him the Harmon Trophy and made all-weather airline operations practical. He was a flying instructor during World war I  and a reserve officer in the United States Air Corps, but he was recalled to active duty during World War II. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for personal valor and leadership as commander of the Doolittle Raid, a bold long-range retaliatory air raid on some of the Japanese main islands on April 18, 1942, four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid used 16 B-25B Mitchell l medium bombers with reduced armament to decrease weight and allow a carrier launch..  Each had a crew of five and no escort fighter aircraft. It was a major morale booster for the United States and Doolittle was celebrated as a hero, making him one of the most important national figures of the war.

Doolittle was promoted to lieutenant general and commanded the Twelfth Air Force over North Africa, the Fifteenth Air Force over the Mediterranean, and the Eighth Air Force over Europe. He retired from the Air Force in 1959 but remained active in many technical fields. Doolittle was inducted into the National Aviation in 1967, eight years after retirement and only five years after the Hall was founded. He was eventually promoted to General  in 1985, presented to him by President Ronald Reagan 43 years after the Doolittle Raid. In 2003, he topped Air & Space/Smithsonian  magazine's list of the greatest pilots of all time, and ten years later, Flying magazine ranked Doolittle sixth on its list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation.^[] He died in 1993 at the age of 96, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. 

This book is a wonderful autobiography of this great mans life.  It was purchased NEW and stored ever since.  The book  is in unread condition new and signed by General James Doolittle.

In addition this book it has the signatures of the following Doolittle Raiders

Lt. Hank Potter - Navigator - Crew 1
Lt.  R. E. Cole  - Co-pilot  - Crew 1
Lt. Travis Hoover - Pilot - Crew 2
Dave Pohl  - crew 8
William K Birch - Bombardier-  Crew 11
Captain J. R. Stork - Co-pilot - Crew 10
Lt. Bill Bower - Pilot - Crew 12
Lt. G. P. Williams - Co-pilot - Crew15
Tung-Sheng Liu an honorary member of the Tigers for rendering to aid to downed Doolittle pilots in china