Rick Moran, PJ Media: Last Two Doolittle Raiders Honored on Anniversary
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot among the last survivors of the raid.
Only two men are left alive from the 80 airmen and pilots who took off from the deck of the USS Hornet on April 18, 1942, and set out to send Japan a message that the U.S. would stop at nothing to win the war begun by Japan a few months earlier.
Retired Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole, 99, and Staff Sgt. David Thatcher, 93, are the last of the Doolittle Raiders — the men who struck the first blow against the Japanese empire by bombing Tokyo. They are in Dayton, Ohio, today to present the Raiders Congressional Gold Medal to the National Museum of the US Air Force.
Update: Last of Doolittle Raiders present congressional gold medal to Air Force museum -- AP
WNU Editor: Two out of original 80 airmen are still alive .... as I had mentioned in a previous post when the third to last airman died last month .... it is amazing that many of these pilots actually survived on what was for all intents and purposes regarded as a suicide mission. A good description on the attack and the aftermath of the raid can be seen here.
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