| 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. ww2dbase | |||||||||||||||||
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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.”