niner lima charlie
I do not offer jimmy doolittle's tokyo raid as reason for mt rushmore inclusion.
you might not know this, but thanks to doolittle we can land in fog. thanks to doolittle there was enough high octane gasoline to support engines during WW2. His blind landing and other instrument flying technique development happened well before WW2.
Doolittle did a lot. Not just the tokyo raid. I always laugh when people get doolittle's contribution to aviation wrong. Gallantry during WW2 is just a part of this amazing man.
add to the instrument flying, he was a pioneer in high speed flying during the interwar years .
And, just for good measure, if it were not for the doolittle raid, the battle of midway may not have happened which was the turning point in the war in the pacific..
I should have made it more obvious, but my aviation mt rushmore requires people to be pilots too.