POSTPONED: History from the Heart: The Extraordinary Life of Jimmy Doolittle told by Jonna Doolittle Hoppes

UPDATE: Due to the increasing threat of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), our team is taking precautionary measures to keep visitors and museum staff safe.  "History from the Hearth: The Extraordinary Life of Jimmy Doolittle" has been postponed.   We will announce the rescheduled event when public health officials report that the Coronavirus is no longer a threat. 

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Please join us onboard the historic World War II era USS Yorktown for an evening with Jonna Doolittle Hoppes, granddaughter of famed aviator Jimmy Doolittle. Ms. Hoppes will be discussing her books Calculated Risk: the Extraordinary Life of Jimmy Doolittle and Just Doing My Job: Stories from World War II. The presentation will take place around the restored World War II era aircraft, the B-25 Bomber, the type of plane the Doolittle Raiders flew in the Tokyo Raid. Book signing to follow.

Cash bar available; free parking.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here by clicking here. 

For information about the USS Yorktown Foundation, visit our website: http://www.ussyorktownfoundation.org/

For questions, email allisonhunt@ussyorktownfoundation.org