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Encyclopedia > Doolittle

Doolittle refers to a number of people and things:

  • Doolittle is the Pixies' second full-length album, released in March 1989.
  • Eliza Doolittle, a fictional young street vendor of flowers, is the title character of the play Pygmalion and of the musical comedy My Fair Lady (and several films versions of each of them); her father, Alfred Doolittle, a navvy (or unskilled laborer), is also a character in these.
  • General Jimmy Doolittle (James Harold Doolittle) commanded (as a colonel) the 1942 Doolittle Raid, bombing Tokyo less than five months after the Attack on Pearl Harbor that marked the United States' official entrance into World War II. Though it caused only minor damage, it was a significant morale boost for the USA and a psychological blow to the heretofore secure Japanese.
  • John Doolittle is a Congressman from California.
  • Doolittle, Missouri is an extremely small town.

The name is also easily mistaken for a similar name (with one fewer letter O in its spelling): Doolittle is the Pixies second LP album, released in April 1989 through the 4AD label (green-brown cover). ... Pixies are an alternative rock music group. ... March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pygmalion is a play by G. Bernard Shaw, written in 1912 and first staged in English in 1914. ... The original poster for the Broadway production of the show designed by Al Hirschfeld My Fair Lady is a 1956 musical theater production with lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederic Loewe. ... Navvy is a shorter form of the word navigator and is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects. ... General Jimmy Doolittle at 8th Air Force HQ, 1945. ... Combatants United States Japan Commanders James H. Doolittle N/A Strength 16 B-25 Mitchells N/A Casualties 3 dead, 8 POWs (4 would die in captivity) about 50 dead, 400 injured Lt. ... Combatants United States of America Imperial Japan Commanders Husband Kimmel (USN) Walter Short (USA) Chuichi Nagumo (IJN) Strength 8 battleships, 8 cruisers, 29 destroyers, 9 submarines, ~50 other ships, ~390 planes 6 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, 9 destroyers, 8 tankers, 23 fleet submarines, 5 midget submarines, 441 planes... Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II... Rep. ... Doolittle is a city located in Phelps County, Missouri. ...



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Doolittle Raid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2987 words)
The Doolittle Raid proved that the Japanese home islands were vulnerable to American retaliation for Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
Subsequent calculations by Doolittle indicated that the B-25 Mitchell could be launched from a carrier with a reasonable bomb load, hit military targets in Japan, and fly on to land in China.
Immediately following the raid, Jimmy Doolittle told his crew that he believed the loss of all 16 aircraft, coupled with the relatively minor damage the planes had inflicted on their targets, had rendered the attack a failure, and that he expected a court martial upon his return to the United States.
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