Jonna Doolittle Hoppes

Jonna Doolittle Hoppes is the granddaughter of Jimmy Doolittle and the author of Just Doing My Job: Stories of Service from World War II (Santa Monica Press). She has taught classes at the United States Air Force base in Los Angeles and has written for such magazines as Smithsonian Air and Space, Air Force Magazine, and Air Power History. Hoppes is president of the Air Force Historical Foundation (founded by General Spaatz in 1953), and an advisor for the Flying Tiger Foundation. She has spoken at the Madingley American Cemetery in England, the ROC Air Force Academy in Taiwan, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, the Pritzker Military Library, the Pacific aviation Museum at Ford Island in Hawaii, the Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, as well as at the Air Force Academy in both the United States and England. She has appeared in the television program Man, Moment, Machine, and in the documentary From Vengeance to Forgiveness: Jake DeShazer’s Extraordinary Journey. Hoppes lives in Huntington Beach, California.