Jimmy Doolittle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
-- Jimmy Doolittle

#Fighting #Necks #Should
The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
-- Jimmy Doolittle

#War #Winning #Air
The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.
-- Jimmy Doolittle

#Military #War #Air
Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.
-- Jimmy Doolittle

#Strong #Military #Heart
Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive to offsensive, Germany lost the air war. I made that decision and it was my most important decision during World War II. As you can imagine, the bomber crews were upset. The fighter pilots were ecstatic.
-- Jimmy Doolittle

#War #Military #Air
Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.
-- Jimmy Doolittle

#Trying #World
To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!
-- Jimmy Doolittle

#Eye #Luck #Agility
The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.
-- Jimmy Doolittle

#Country #Writing #Stupidity
Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939
-- Jimmy Doolittle

#Flying #Germany #May
I could never be so lucky again
-- Jimmy Doolittle

#Lucky #So Lucky

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