The raid he led on Tokyo in April 1942 got him lots of kudos: a big promotion, Medal of Honor...
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Jeopary Questions page 1929 - OPERA - TriviaBistro.com  WWII NAMES: The raid he led on Tokyo in April 1942 got him lots of kudos: a big promotion, Medal of Honor... PAST IRREGULAR: "I found my thrill", "wound a...
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World War II Doolittle Raiders get the Congressional Gold Medal ...  May 26, 2014 ... The 80 airmen who flew the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, Japan, were honored .... his uniform before he led the first aerial raid on Japan in World War II ... raid on Japan, April 18, 1942, and some of the men who flew with him drink a ... Doolittle was awarded the Medal of Honor from President Franklin D.
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Princeton - in the News - November 25 to December 2, 1999  Kudos To Catholics For Tightening Controls .... The raid was planned perfectly. ..... The results I got in my living room weren't a whole lot different from those I get ... call him a MessageMate-an attention-getting form of promotion that can be sent ... He graduated from Princeton University, where he led the Tigers in goals and...
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Jeopardy! #2743 - 2005-12-07  1000Unless Bugs Bunny can stop him, this character wants to use his PU-36 ... The raid he led on Tokyo in April 1942 got him lots of kudos: a big promotion,...
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The North American B-25 Mitchell Bomber - Warfare History Network  Oct 7, 2016 ... The verdict led Mitchell to resign from the Army, and he soon ... On April 1, 1942, the 16 B-25s were loaded on board the carrier USS Hornet at Alameda, Calif. ... awarded the coveted Medal of Honor, which he did not believe he deserved. ... The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo is the most famous mission flown by...
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Day of Infamy - Cengage Learning  party led by General Hideki Tojo and the military demanded that the United ... HIROHITO Emperor of Japan and a figurehead ... homa: Man your battle stations! ... Pearl Harbor anniversary ceremonies, White House ... clysm also changed the Japanese from a people trying ..... Diamond Head, and you wouldn't know it?.
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Jakes Takes  Vicious fights had raged from the beginning, but some of the fiercest battles .... Corps Captain Everett Pope not only became a national hero but also joined an ... the exploits earned Scott the country's admiration, and he emerged from the war as ... The battle began on April 17th as Twiggs stormed Atalaya, driving the enemy...
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Nation & World | No. 2 in U.S. war effort in Iraq 'loves Arab world ...  Mar 26, 2003 ... He's also a three-star general, deputy commander of the U.S. ... His performance was indicative of his climb up the U.S. military ladder and the way he runs the war: ... general who commanded an armored brigade in the 1991 Gulf War. ... leading a Ranger Rifle Company during the invasion of Grenada.
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George Jackson, 326th Airborne Engineering Battalion - WWII ...  Page 1 of 2 - George Jackson, 326th Airborne Engineering Battalion - posted in WWII ... me and said he was one of the Battered Bastards, my jaw hit the floor. ... They didn't seem like real soldiers to his group but they were told by ... He does remember partying in Paris, drinking way more than he should...
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James H. Doolittle - World War II - HISTORY.com  He is most famous for leading a daring bombing raid over Tokyo in 1942, the first American ... To aid his record-breaking 1922 coast-to-coast flight, U.S. military strategist Jimmy Doolittle ... Doolittle died on September 27, 1993, at age 96.
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J! Archive - Show #6496, aired 2012-12-10  His 1947 doctrine called for aid to anticommunist governments in Greece & turkey .... During WWII the gold vault at this military post held the original copy of ... Nicknamed "tailgunner Joe" for his WWII service, he hunted reds in ... Oddly, this award for excellence in advertising is named for the muse of history...
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American Experience . MacArthur . Enhanced Transcript Part II | PBS  In April 1944, General Douglas MacArthur was about to launch his biggest battle ... At West Point he had been first in his class. ... of the holes where they were supposed to be buried with a Japanese Samurai. ... He had lived there with his family for more than six years before the war ... But the decision was theirs not his.
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Japanese Orders, Decorations and Medals of Honor  I, Shoji Sugita was awarded Order Decorations, " Kun 4th Kyokujitsu .... of Japanese brilliant Orders Decorations and Medals is on the top level in the ... Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, Paulownia Flowers, Grand Cordon of the
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Admiral William F. Bull Halsey earned a legendary reputation for ...  Admiral William F. Bull Halsey earned a legendary reputation for daring and ... He was a "triple ace", with a combined total of 16 victories in World War II and ... Quite a guy, he became Commandant of Cadets at the Air Force Academy ...... Did you know what Japan did in World War II ..... He didn't drink, smoke, or chew.
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Events leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor - Wikipedia  A series of events led to the attack on Pearl Harbor. War between Japan and the United States ... He finally won assent from the Naval High Command by, among other things, .... In the days before the attack, a long 14-part message was sent to the ... In August 1941, Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoe proposed a...
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Sidebars: Memoir  Feb 3, 2012 ... He made nearly 100 action films although his ingratiating .... with pal/disc jockey/newsman Bruce Hayward who informed me that ...... getting Grant Park-like treatment reminiscent of Chicago circa 1968. ..... "Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer" and later: "Hitler...there was a painter!
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Chester W. Nimitz - Wikipedia  Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, he was promoted by Roosevelt to commander-in-chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT), with the rank of admiral, effective December 31.
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Isoroku Yamamoto - Wikipedia  Isoroku Yamamoto was a Japanese Marshal Admiral and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II until his death. ... Later that year, he changed his specialty from gunnery to naval aviation. His first ... His daring plan for the Pearl Harbor attack had passed through the crucible of the Japanese naval...
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James Doolittle, 96, Pioneer Aviator Who Led First Raid on Japan ...  Sep 29, 1993 ... James Doolittle, 96, Pioneer Aviator Who Led First Raid on Japan, Dies ... the daylight air raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities four months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, died on Monday at his son's home in Pebble Beach, Calif ... Long before World War II, the chunky, rugged, baldish Jimmy...
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June 26, 2008  ... In 1192 Yoritomo, the leader of the Minamoto Clan controlling Japan, was given this title that means "great general" shogun If you travel here by Winnebago,...
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Alvin C. York - Wikiquote  He was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking control of 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers and...