Editing Jimmy Doolittle (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:James H. Doolittle by Garfield Jones, 1986.JPEG|thumb|Doolittle photographed in 1986]]

Doolittle married Josephine "Joe" E. Daniels on December 24, 1917. At a dinner celebration after Jimmy Doolittle's first all-instrument flight in 1929, Josephine Doolittle asked her guests to sign her white damask tablecloth. Later, she embroidered the names in black. She continued this tradition, collecting hundreds of signatures from the aviation world. The tablecloth was donated to the [[Smithsonian Institution]]. Married for exactly 71 years, Josephine Doolittle died on December 24, 1988, five years before her husband.<ref>{{cite news|last=Barnes|first=Bart|date=September 29, 1993|title=Gen. James Dolittle Dies|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/09/29/gen-james-doolittle-dies/21e9a241-b634-4fb4-a338-4e56b1b1a690/|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=November 12, 2020}}</ref>

The Doolittles had two sons, James Jr., and John. Both became military officers and pilots. James Jr. was an [[A-26 Invader]] pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II and later a fighter pilot in the [[U.S. Air Force]] in the late 1940s through the late 1950s. He died by suicide in 1958, aged 38.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20060720%2FFEATURES%2F607200583%2F1021%2FFEATURES02|title=My grandfather The General|last=Rife|first=Susan L.|date=July 20, 2006|publisher=Herald Tribune|access-date=May 1, 2009|archive-date=October 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004043055/http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20060720%2FFEATURES%2F607200583%2F1021%2FFEATURES02|url-status=dead}}</ref> At the time of his death, James Jr. was a Major and commander of the [[524th Fighter Squadron|524th Fighter-Bomber Squadron]], piloting the [[F-101 Voodoo]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19580415&id=4nEgAAAAIBAJ&pg=1734,4598721|title=James Doolittle Jr. Commits Suicide |work=[[Lewiston Evening Journal]] |location=Lewiston/Auburn, Maine |agency=[[Associated Press]] |page=5 |via=Google News Archive Search}}</ref>

The other son, John P. Doolittle, retired from the Air Force as a colonel, and his grandson, Colonel James H. Doolittle III, was the vice commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at [[Edwards Air Force Base]], California.

James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle died from a [[stroke]] at the age of 96 in [[Pebble Beach, California]], on September 27, 1993, and is buried at [[Arlington National Cemetery]] in [[Virginia]], near [[Washington, D.C.]], next to his wife.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Notable-Graves/Medal-of-Honor-Recipients/World-War-II-MoH-recipients/James-H-Doolittle|title=James "Jimmy" H. Doolittle|website=www.arlingtoncemetery.mil}}<!-- This is the official ANC page --></ref> In his honor at the funeral, there was also a flyover of Miss Mitchell, a lone [[B-25 Mitchell]], and USAF Eighth Air Force bombers from [[Barksdale Air Force Base]], [[Louisiana]]. After a brief graveside service, fellow Doolittle Raider [[Bill Bower]] began the final tribute on the bugle. When emotion took over, Doolittle's great-grandson, Paul Dean Crane, Jr., played [[Taps (bugle call)|Taps]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2011/01/bill-bower-dies-doolittle-raid.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141201112741/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2011/01/bill-bower-dies-doolittle-raid.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 1, 2014|title=Post Mortem – Bill Bower dies; Doolittle Raider was last surviving pilot|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>

Doolittle was initiated to the [[Scottish Rite Freemasonry]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dalhousielodge.org/homepagelinks/famous.htm|title=Famous masons|website=Dalhousie Lodge F. & A.M., Newtonville, Massachusetts|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903081911/http://www.dalhousielodge.org/homepagelinks/famous.htm|archive-date=September 3, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/textfiles/famous.html|title=List of notable freemasons|access-date=4 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011004153632/http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/textfiles/famous.html|website=freemasonry.bcy.ca|archive-date=4 October 2001|url-status=live}}</ref> where he took the [[Master Mason|33rd degree]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.matawanlodge.org/famous.htm|title=Celebrating More Than 100 Years of Freemasonry: Famous Masons in History|access-date=13 October 2018|website=Matawan Lodhe N0 192 F&AM, New Jersey|quotation=Jimmy Doolittle, 33°, Grand Cross|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930231443/http://www.matawanlodge.org/famous.htm|archive-date=September 30, 2018|url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mastermason.com/goldenfleece89/Famous%20Masons/Famous%20Masons.htm|title=Gallery of famous masons|website=mastermason.com|access-date=13 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006221127/http://www.mastermason.com/goldenfleece89/Famous%20Masons/Famous%20Masons.htm|archive-date=October 6, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> becoming also a Shriner.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.masonrytoday.com/index.php?new_month=09&new_day=27&new_year=2015|title=James Harold 'Jimmy' Doolittle Passes Away|access-date=13 October 2018|website=masonrytoday.com|quotation=With special dispensation from the Grand Lodge of California and the Grand Lodge of Louisiana, Doolittle was given all three degrees on August 16th, 1918 in Lake Charles Lodge No. 16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013210628/http://www.masonrytoday.com/index.php?new_month=09&new_day=27&new_year=2015| archive-date=October 13, 2018}}</ref>{{clear left}}