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

The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

- Jimmy Doolittle

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 offsen…

- Jimmy Doolittle

I could never be so lucky again

- Jimmy Doolittle

I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy: worry about those things you can fix. It y…

- Jimmy Doolittle

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

Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939

- Jimmy Doolittle

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

- Jimmy Doolittle

To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a…

- Jimmy Doolittle