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If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
Attributed to General Jimmy Doolittle
Eighth Air Force Commander. In, for example, the 2007 book Military Air Power: The CADRE digest of air power opinions and thoughts.
Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive to offensive, Germany lost the air war. I made that decision and it was my most important decision during World War II. As you can imagine, the bomber crews were upset. The fighter pilots were ecstatic.
General Jimmy Doolittle, USAAF
Quoted in 1991 book Fighters of World War II.
To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman’s eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage—and occasional luck!
General Jimmy Doolittle, USAAF
Quoted in 2007 Smithsonian book Extreme Aircraft.
I have yet to hear of anyone engaged in this work dying of old age.
Jimmy Doolittle
On retiring from air racing after breaking the world landplane speed record, speech before the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, 1932. Quoted in The Story of Jimmy Doolittle, Collier’s, 1948.
The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.
Jimmy Doolittle
At the time an Air Corps Reservist and racing pilot, comments to a reporter regards the presidential committee of inquiry that did not support establishment of an air force separate from the army, 1934.
The function of the Army and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.
General Jimmy Doolittle
Speech at Georgetown University, 1949.
I am not a very timid type. It’s very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy: worry about those things you can fix. If you can’t fix it, don’t worry about it; accept it and do the best you can. But some folks worry about things they can’t do anything about until they lose their effectiveness.
Jimmy Doolittle
Interview in American Heritage magazine, April 1974.
I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.
Jimmy Doolittle
From his autobiography, I Could Never Be So Lucky Again, 1991.
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