I Could Never Be So Lucky Again

After Pearl Harbor, he led America’s flight to victory

General Doolittle is a giant of the twentieth century. He did it all.

As a stunt pilot, he thrilled the world with his aerial acrobatics. As a scientist, he pioneered the development of modern aviation technology.

During World War II, he served his country as a fearless and innovative air warrior, organizing and leading the devastating raid against Japan immortalized in the film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.

Now, for the first time, here is his life story — modest, revealing, and candid as only Doolittle himself can tell it.

• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
• Forever Flying: Fifty Years of High-flying Adventures, From Barnstorming in Prop Planes to Dogfighting Germans to Testing Supersonic Jets, An Autobiography
• Yeager: An Autobiography
• Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot
• Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
• Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
• The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
• The Saga of Pappy Gunn
• Fate Is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir
• Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe