Last man standing.

Last Doolittle Raider standing: WWII vet to attend homecoming, 75th anniversary event - Veterans

stripes.com 16 Apr '17, 9pm

Last man standing.

At 101 years old, Dayton native Richard E. Cole is the last Doolittle Raider standing. On Monday and Tuesday, he’s set for a homecoming of sorts to mark the 75th anniversary of the audacious raid commemorated in ceremonies and a World War II era B-25 bomber flyover at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. On April 18, 1942, 80 Army Air Forces airmen climbed into 16 B-25B Mitchell bombers in groups of five to fly off deck of the USS Hornet and travel across hundreds of miles of ocean to bomb Japan. Cole was co-pilot to the raid leader, then Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, a legendary record-setting aviator. “There was a bit of scariness but we had trained for 45 days,” Cole said in part in a telephone interview last week from his Texas home. “We were supposed to light up Tokyo and do as much damage as possible.” The raid that struck five cities caused little damage but raise...

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