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While he was at shell he flew to South America for advertisement. He flew
across the country setting a new record for the shortest amount of time. When
World War II started he rejoined the air force as a major skipping the rank of
captain. He was given a top secret project that was to bomb Tokyo and other
major cites. The purpose of this was to inflict fear into the hearts of all
Japanese who had been told that they were invincible. When he got back he was
awarded the Metal of Honor much to the delight of Jimmy and Joe who was Jimmy’s
wife. Then he asked to go to Europe to be in battle against Germany. At that
time there were several air force divisions, the 8th, 12th, 6th, and the 9th.
The 8th is the supreme air force.
He commanded the 12th for a while, but then
was made commander of the 8th. When he was commanding the 12th he flew a lot of
missions that he was not supposed to fly because he was a person that knew about
ultra, the German code that the British broke. When he was made commander of the
8th then he stopped flying missions. He also met up with Bruce, a friend from
his test pilot days, who had been discharged for smuggling tequila and other
things. Before planes had good bombsights planes would drop bombs on the
friendly troops because when the winds changed pilots thought that the target
was under the smoke, so Jimmy said that they needed more effective bomb sights
which he got. By the end of the war he was a 4 star general. He retired and
worked full time as shells vice president. From then on he became members of
clubs and was a 3 time caterpillar club member.
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