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[Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right] / Maurice Constant. – Antique Photo Print

[Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right] / Maurice Constant., [May 1945?] — historic photograph
[Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right] / Maurice Constant., [May 1945?]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right] / Maurice Constant.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right] / Maurice Constant.

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Shown in a tight head-and-shoulders view, turned slightly to the right, this portrait presents Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle at a time when he was one of the best-known airmen in the country. He had led the April 1942 raid on Tokyo, the first American strike on the Japanese home islands, which gave the public an early wartime hero. The print comes from the Maurice Constant Collection, and its probable date of May 1945 places it near the end of the war in Europe, when Doolittle held senior command of Eighth Air Force operations. Wartime portraits like this one were commonly distributed to newspapers and public audiences.

Created / published[May 1945?]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesMaurice Constant Collection.
SubjectsDoolittle, James Harold,--1896-1993--Military service.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,318 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-180708

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