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Corbin Myers Doolittle Jr., the son of Corbin and Bertha (Whitham) Doolittle, was born on March 25, 1924, in New York City. By 1940, he was residing in Schenectady with his mother. 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 held the rank of Technical Sergeant and served with the 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Heavy. When Corbin's B-17F Flying Fortress was shot down by enemy fire on February 4, 1944, while en route from Italy to France, Corbin went missing. He is remembered at the Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial, France.
Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry