![President Franklin Roosevelt presenting the Medal of Honor to Brigadier General James Doolittle for Doolittle’s role in leading a bomber attack on Tokyo one month earlier, White House, Washington DC, United States, 19 May 1942. [Colorized by WW2DB]](/images/ai/20230224/5d5cd1f3b8bb5.jpg)
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Caption | President Franklin Roosevelt presenting the Medal of Honor to Brigadier General James Doolittle for Doolittle’s role in leading a bomber attack on Tokyo one month earlier, White House, Washington DC, United States, 19 May 1942. [Colorized by WW2DB] ww2dbase | |||||||||||||||||
WW2-Era Location Name | Washington DC, United States | |||||||||||||||||
Date | 19 May 1942 | |||||||||||||||||
Photographer | Unknown | |||||||||||||||||
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Colorized Date | 24 Feb 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
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Source | ww2dbaseUnited States National Archives | |||||||||||||||||
Identification Code | 208-PU-52-LL-12 | |||||||||||||||||
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20 Aug 2019 10:10:55 PM
Also seen are Lieutenant General Henry “Hap” Arnold, Chief of Army Air Forces, Mrs. Josephine Doolittle, and General George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff.
Doolittle’s Medal of Honor citation reads:
“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.”