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Your copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register 1925-1936 with all the pilots' signatures and helpful cross-references to pilots and their aircraft is available at the link. 375 pages with black & white photographs and extensive tables

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The Congress of Ghosts (available as eBook) is an anniversary celebration for 2010.  It is an historical biography, that celebrates the 5th year online of www.dmairfield.org and the 10th year of effort on the project dedicated to analyze and exhibit the history embodied in the Register of the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Tucson, AZ. This book includes over thirty people, aircraft and events that swirled through Tucson between 1925 and 1936. It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders. Order your copy at the link.

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Military Aircraft of the Davis Monthan Register 1925-1936 is available at the link. This book describes and illustrates with black & white photographs the majority of military aircraft that landed at the Davis-Monthan Airfield between 1925 and 1936. The book includes biographies of some of the pilots who flew the aircraft to Tucson as well as extensive listings of all the pilots and airplanes. Use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author, while supplies last.

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Art Goebel's Own Story by Art Goebel (edited by G.W. Hyatt) is written in language that expands for us his life as a Golden Age aviation entrepreneur, who used his aviation exploits to build a business around his passion.  Available as a free download at the link.

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Winners' Viewpoints: The Great 1927 Trans-Pacific Dole Race (available as eBook) is available at the link. This book describes and illustrates with black & white photographs the majority of military aircraft that landed at the Davis-Monthan Airfield between 1925 and 1936. The book includes biographies of some of the pilots who flew the aircraft to Tucson as well as extensive listings of all the pilots and airplanes. Use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author, while supplies last.

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Clover Field: The first Century of Aviation in the Golden State (available in paperback) With the 100th anniversary in 2017 of the use of Clover Field as a place to land aircraft in Santa Monica, this book celebrates that use by exploring some of the people and aircraft that made the airport great. 281 pages, black & white photographs.

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JAMES HAROLD "JIMMY" DOOLITTLE

"I can sum my career up in a word: I've been real lucky!"

J.H. Doolittle, Oral History, 1960

 

J.H. Doolittle With Curtiss Racer, Ca. 1925 (Source: NASM)

 

Anyone of a certain age who was alive and halfway warm during the 20th century knows who he was. We find him at Pitcairn Field December 11, 1928. As one of only 16 military landings at the Airfield, he was flying an unidentified Vought Corsair out of Mitchell Field, LI, NY. He entered no other information regarding passengers or destination.

Durng the 1930s he left the military and worked for Shell Oil Company promoting their aviation products. Commercially for Shell, among other duties, Doolittle was responsible for promoting 100 octane aviation fuel, which ultimately would be used to great advantage during WWII.

Besides setting records in both military and civil flying during the interbellum, Doolittle is the guy who led the Tokyo Raid on Japan early in WWII, for which he earned the Congressional Medal of Honor (ribbon, right sidebar). He also led the 12th Air Force in Africa and, later, the 15th Air Force in the Mediterranean and the 8th in England. He retired from the military February 28, 1959. There are many Web sources and biographies for him.

James Doolittle's biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Register Web site at the link. Besides his single landing at Pitcairn Field, he landed once at the Davis-Monthan Airfield on Sunday, October 9, 1927. Please click the link above and review his biography over at the Davis-Monthan site. It includes more information, photographs and links to an oral history. "Lucky" he was.

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