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I Could Never Be So Lucky Again By General James h. Jimmy Doolittle This book
is about a famous pilot in World War II named Jimmy Doolittle. When Jimmy was 14
he had a taste for boxing. To encourage Jimmy to quit boxing his mom bought him
a motorcycle. So he boxed professionally under the name of Jimmy Pierce. When he
was 16 he met a girl named Josephine, but she was called Joe. For three years
Joe ignored Jimmy but then she started to accept him and they started to like
each other. But Joe didn’t like Jimmy boxing so he again started to box under
the name of Jimmy Pierce. But when Joe found out she was mad. He then went to
junior collage. When he was young Jimmy had two goals, to see the world and to
build things. Back then only engineers could build things and only two kinds
could see the world, civil engineers and mining engineers, he choose to be a
mining engineer. The first two years of the mining engineer course was the same
as the other engineering courses, math and science. He went to the famous
Comstock Lode, thought the rush was over. Some thing happened that summer, a
mining elevator cable broke with the mining boss and a miner on it and it fell
2,900 feet to the bottom of the shaft.
Since Jimmy was the only one with first
aid training he was lowered down. When he got to the bottom he found the cage,
his light went out so he had a hard time finding the door, but when he found it
and dropped in, the people were dead. He was raised up and miners suddenly loved
him. When Jimmy completed collage he and his friend joined the armed forces. His
friend joined the infantry. But Jimmy joined the air force. First he became an
instructor. On time he and a student were landing, a plane under them hit the
bottom of their plane and crashed, when Jimmy landed he went over to the other
plane but the propeller had taken the pilot’s head off. Then he became a test
pilot. While he was a test pilot he tested several very valuable safety
instruments such as the Turn and Bank indicator and the homing beacon. But Jimmy
had a stunt sprit so he was the first to do the out side loop and set several
speed and time records. Jimmy also won several races. After awhile Jimmy left
the air force to work with shell.
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