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Cole was the last surviving participant in the Doolittle Raid. Staff Sergeant David J. Thatcher, gunner of aircraft No. 7, died on June 23, 2016, at the age of 94. [5] [14] [15] Cole, who lived to be 103, was the only participant to live to a higher age than the raid's leader, Jimmy Doolittle, who died in 1993 at age 96. [16] [citation needed]
He moved to Cincinnati where he engaged in accounting business. Griffin joined the Doolittle Raiders Association, and attended every reunion except the final reunion, which was scheduled for April 2013, due to him dying in February 2013. [5] [11] Griffin died on February 26, 2013, in a Veteran Affairs nursing home in Cincinnati, at the age of 96.
Lt Col. Richard E. Cole, Doolittle's copilot in aircraft No. 1, was the last surviving Doolittle Raider [82] and the only one to live to an older age than Doolittle, who died in 1993 at age 96. [ note 13 ] Cole was the only Raider still alive when the wreckage of Hornet was found in late January 2019 by the research vessel Petrel at a depth of ...
Guest columnist Eric Hogan writes about the Doolittle Raid, the first air attack by the United States against Japan in WWII.
The air raid, which came to be called the Doolittle Raid, after Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle, took place on April 18, 1942. [1] Bower piloted one of the sixteen B-25B Mitchell medium bombers that took off from the USS Hornet to attack cities on Honshu. [2] Bower and his five-member crew bombed the city of Yokohama during the raid. [1]
He was a veteran of World War II and participated in the Doolittle Raid on Japan on April 18, 1942. Saylor was one of the last four surviving Doolittle Raiders at the time of his death in 2015. Saylor was one of the last four surviving Doolittle Raiders at the time of his death in 2015.
Prior to his death, York was interviewed in 1984 about his involvement in the Doolittle Raid and subsequent internment in the Soviet Union. [12] York died of a heart attack at his home in San Antonio on August 31, 1984, at the age of 72. He was buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. [1] [13] Following his death, Jimmy Doolittle stated ...
An Army Air Force B-25 bomber takes off from USS Hornet at the start of the Doolittle Raiders attack on Japan on April 18, 1942. On Sept. 29, 1943, a remembrance stone in Duquette’s honor was ...