The 79-year-old "Hairless Joe!" C-47, which once transported troops and cargo during WWII, highlighted the airport's 100 ...

The historic C-47 "Hairless Joe!" will land at the airport on Tuesday as part of centennial festivities that include mascot ...

Lockheed’s P-38 achieved performance that took the plane to new heights in aviation history, flying in a range that no one ...

The Doolittle Raiders, named for their commander Jimmy Doolittle, trained for their mission at Eglin Field in Florida and then launched on Tokyo from the first USS Hornet CV-8 aircraft carrier.

Doolittle sits beside the wreckage of his B-25 after crash landing in China. He assumed he'd be court-martialed for losing all 16 planes under his command. Photograph by Underwood Archive, Getty ...

In 1943-44, WWII was at a turning point, and Jimmy Doolittle - one of the war’s most celebrated leaders - made a bold decision that nearly backfired. Known for his fearless leadership after the ...

The scorn for Washington’s airport was universal. “Probably the worst field in the country,” famed war pilot Jimmy Doolittle, then a major, said.

Jimmy Doolittle was born at Alameda, Calif. 45 years ago, but he first found his fighting fists in Nome, Alaska, where his father hunted unsuccessfully for Yukon gold.

On April 18, 1942, five months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Lt. Col. "Jimmy" Doolittle led 15 B-25 Mitchell bombers on a bombing raid across the mainland of Japan.

Richard E. Cole, who was Jimmy Doolittle’s co-pilot in the lead plane of a storied mission in the history of American air power, the bombing raid on Japan in retaliation for its attack on Pearl ...

On a spring day in March 1942 a convoy of 22 Army Air Corps B-25s completed their cross-country flight to McClellan Air Depot for final preparation of what would become the Doolittle Raid.

Travis Hoover, a longtime Joplin resident, was pilot of the No. 2 plane. He took off from the aircraft carrier Hornet right after Jimmy Doolittle and was Doolittle’s wingman all the way over Japan.