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, General Doolittle personally led a squadron of Army bombers, manned by volunteer crews, in a highly destructive raid on the Japanese mainland."
General James H. Doolittle
General Doolittle died in California on 27 September 1993 and was buried in Section 7-A of Arlington National Cemetery, with his wife, Josephine. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, and was promoted from Colonel to Brigadier General, for leading the first carrier-based bomber attack on mainland Japan in 1942.