"Full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in flying clothing in front of one of his airplanes. GENERAL JAMES HAROLD DOOLITTLE 1896 - 1993 First To Make An All-Blind Instrument Flight From Take Off to Landing, 1929.Doolittle compiled an impressive record as an air pioneer. He initially earned national attention in September, 1922 when he made the first transcontinental crossing of the United States in a single day, traveling two thousand and one hundred miles in twenty-one hours. In 1950 he was named Aviator of the Decade by the Harmon International Aviation Awards Committee."