Jonna Doolittle Hoppes is the granddaughter of Jimmy Doolittleand the author of Just Doing My Job: Stories of Service from WorldWar II (Santa Monica Press). She has taught classes at the United States Air Force base in Los Angeles and has written for suchmagazines as Smithsonian Air and Space, Air Force Magazine, andAir Power History. Hoppes is president of the Air Force HistoricalFoundation (founded by General Spaatz in 1953), and an advisorfor the Flying Tiger Foundation. She has spoken at the Madingley American Cemetery in England, the ROC Air Force Academyin Taiwan, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, the PritzkerMilitary Library, the Pacific aviation Museum at Ford Island inHawaii, the Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, as well as at the AirForce Academy in both the United States and England. She hasappeared in the television program Man, Moment, Machine, and inthe documentary From Vengeance to Forgiveness: Jake DeShazer’s Extraordinary Journey. Hoppes lives in Huntington Beach, California. Retired Air Force Colonel Carroll V. Glines is the author of 36books and more than 700 magazine articles on aviation and military subjects. Three of his books are about the 1942 DoolittleRaid on Japan. He was also the co-author of General Jimmy Doolittle’s autobiography entitled I Could Never Be So Lucky Again. Hewas formerly the editor of Air Cargo, Air Line Pilot, and ProfessionalPilot magazines, and is now the curator of the Doolittle Libraryat the University of Texas, Dallas, and historian for the DoolittleTokyo Raiders. Richard P. Hallion holds a Ph.D. in history from the Universityof Maryland, and has completed specialized governmental andnational security programs at the Federal Executive Institute,and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has been aCurator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and SpaceMuseum; a Historian with the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration and the U.S. Air Force; the Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History at the Army War College; the CharlesLindbergh Professor at the National Air and Space Museum; aSenior Issues and Policy Analyst for the Secretary of the Air Force;The Air Force Historian; a Senior Advisor for Air and Space Issuesfor the Air Force’s Directorate for Security, Counterintelligence,and Special Programs; a Special Advisor for Aerospace Technology for the Air Force Chief Scientist; a Senior Advisor to the Science and Technology Policy Institute of the Institute for DefenseAnalyses; a Research Associate in Aeronautics for the National Airand Space Museum; and a Trustee of Florida Polytechnic University. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronauticsand Astronautics, the Royal Aeronautical Society, and the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Member of the Order ofDaedalians who has flown as a mission observer in a wide rangeof military aircraft. He lives in Shalimar, Florida. In thirty years of continuous service, Clarence E. “Bud” Andersonflew two combat tours during World War II, flight tested aircraftat Wright Field and Edwards Air Force Base, did two tours at thePentagon, commanded three fighter units, and flew ground-sup-port combat missions in Southeast Asia. He was decorated twenty-five times. A triple ace of World War II, he is the highest scoringliving American fighter ace. A member of the National AviationHall of Fame, he lives in Auburn, California, where he celebratedhis 100th birthday on January 13, 2022.
