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James "Jimmy" DoolittleOriginal AutographTom Griffin - "Doolittle Raider" AutographAutos of Robert Mitchum & Van Johnson Stars of "30 Seconds Over Tokyo"This Jimmy Doolittle Beautifully Custom Framed & Matted Piece 16 1/4" x 13 1/4" IS A ONE OF A KIND ITEM!!A 14" x 11" Ready to be Framed autograph of Tom Griffin an Original "Doolittle Raider"Autographed 3"x 5" Index card of Robert Mitchum and a8"x 10" Autograph of Van Johnson. Two of the stars of"30 Seconds Over Tokyo"The Van Johnson auto has Silver Ink smears.JIMMY DOOLITTLE (1896-1993)James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle became a national hero and received the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor for leading a carrier-based bomber attack on Tokyo, Japan in April of 1942. The "Doolittle Raid" was the first attack on Japan by the U.S. in World War II, and occurred just four months after the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. Doolittle first earned his wings during World War I. A skilled pilot, he was famous on the air race circuit during the 1920s and '30s, and was the first person to fly across the United States in one day (in 1922 he flew form Florida to California in under fourteen hours). He earned graduate degrees in aeronautics and worked for Shell Oil before rejoining the Arm Air Corps just before World War II. During the war Doolittle commanded air forces in North Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. The story of Doolittle's raid on Japan was made into a popular wartime movie, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944