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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 ...
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]
On April 18, let’s remember the Doolittle Raiders’ attack on Japan on that day in 1942. ... Duquette died on June 3, 1942, when his aircraft hit a mountain after bombing Lashio, Burma while ...
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.
Everett Wayne Holstrom (4 May 1916 – 2 December 2000) was a United States Army Air Forces bomber pilot and participant of the Doolittle Raid during World War II. He retired from the United States Air Force in 1969 at the rank of brigadier general .
Edward Joseph York (August 16, 1912 – August 31, 1984) was a United States Air Force colonel.A graduate of the United States Military Academy, he was one of the airmen who took part in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, Japan, during World War II, on April 18, 1942.