About
World War II (1939-1945)
Corbin Myers Doolittle Jr. was born in New York City, on March 25, 1924. By 1940, he was living with his mother in the city of Schenectady. When Corbin enlisted, he was still a student at Mont Pleasant High School.
On September 18, 1942, Corbin enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps. He was a technical sergeant serving with the 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Heavy. When his B-17F Flying Fortress was shot down by enemy fire on February 4, 1944, while en route from Italy to France, he went missing. He is remembered at the Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial in France.
Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry