Noted aviator. He was decorated four times for bravery and was wounded as many as seven times during his service during World War I, including a plane crash during the War when he fell seven hundred feet to the ground. Some of the wounds received resulted in disfigurement to his face. He was decorated with the Croix de Guerre, the Military Cross of England, for valor and service and the Belgian War Cross. He died in Buffalo in a training missions falling from three hundred fifty feet resulting in his death.
For complete details on his life see http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/57730847/?terms=james%2Bdoolittle
For complete details on his life see http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/57730847/?terms=james%2Bdoolittle
Noted aviator. He was decorated four times for bravery and was wounded as many as seven times during his service during World War I, including a plane crash during the War when he fell seven hundred feet to the ground. Some of the wounds received resulted in disfigurement to his face. He was decorated with the Croix de Guerre, the Military Cross of England, for valor and service and the Belgian War Cross. He died in Buffalo in a training missions falling from three hundred fifty feet resulting in his death.
For complete details on his life see http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/57730847/?terms=james%2Bdoolittle
For complete details on his life see http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/57730847/?terms=james%2Bdoolittle
Gravesite Details
He was cremated and his remains were interred in the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial in France.
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Records on Ancestry
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Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Birth Certificates Index, 1871-1922
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U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925
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U.S., Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current
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U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
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New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957
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