As a patriotic American, over the next several years, you should honor and remember, with justifiable pride, the 80th anniversary of many major events of World War II. The first of these memorable ...

The last airmen who took part in the daring Doolittle Raid during World War II has died. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Dick Cole, who served as Army Lt. Col. James Doolittle’s co-pilot during the raid, ...

82 years ago today Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle led the audacious first U.S. airstrike on mainland Japan from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet in what became known as the “Doolittle Raid”. In ...

The shoulder boards placed on Jimmy Doolittle's dress uniform in 1985 were literally museum pieces. Born on Dec. 14, 1896, the famed pilot was 88 years old when he finally received his promotion to ...

April 18 (UPI) --Richard Cole, the last surviving U.S. servicemember who participated in the Doolittle Raid against Japan following the Pearl Harbor attack, took part in a 75th anniversary ceremony at ...

Interservice rivalry burst into visible flame last week when scrappy, articulate Lieut. General James Doolittle sat down before the Senate Military Affairs Committee to testify. He had had dealings ...

The proposal to rename the Burbank Airport the “Bob Hope Airport” is off the mark (Nov. 4). I would recommend that the Burbank Airport be named in honor of Gen. James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle. He was the ...

Sean Doolittle tugs gently on his bushy red beard and soaks in a history lesson as he strolls in silence along the 872-foot wooden flight deck of the USS Hornet. He checks out old war planes while ...

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – At 97, retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole can still fly and land a vintage B-25 with a wide grin and a wave out the cockpit window to amazed onlookers. David Thatcher, 91, ...

GULF BREEZE — An art-filled home on a quiet residential street nestled between the East Bay and Santa Rosa Sound hardly seems like a place where wartime atrocities would be a topic of conversation.

James Edward Doolittle August 4, 1930 – September 3, 2017 SAN DIEGO Retired US Navy Captain James E. Doolittle, 87 of San Diego, CA, passed away on September 3, 2017 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La ...

James W. Doolittle, 82, husband of the late Joyce Doolittle, died June 5, 2013, at his home. He was born April 10, 1931, in Hamilton Township, the son of Clarence and Louisa Doolittle. Jim was a ...