William “Billy Mitchell, Assistant Chief of the Army Air Service, in a bylined April 1922
Hollywood rushed to profit by the adventures of Jimmy Doolittle, his band of thieves, Billy Mitchell, and the plane named after him. No less than four movies can be connected to these subjects. Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944), featuring Spencer Tracy as Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, recounts the tale of the thinking for even a second to air assault of Japan a couple of months […]