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The 1932 Thompson Race

Jimmy Doolittle faces Roscoe Turner and Bob Hall in the 1932 Thompson Trophy Race.

The 1932 Thompson Race

The Thompson Trophy event was a free-for-all in which contestants raced each other around pylons. In the foreground from left to right, Roscoe Turner in his Wedell-Williams, Jimmy Doolittle in his Gee Bee, and Bob Hall in his Bulldog round a pylon in the 1932 Thompson race.

Credit: National Air and Space Museum (NASM 9A06240), Smithsonian Institution.

Date: 1932

Photo Number: NASM 9A06240