Last Doolittle Raider Dies

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Last Doolittle Raider Dies

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Richard Cole, Last Survivor of Doolittle Raid on Japan, Dies at 103

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Richard E. Cole, who was Jimmy Doolittle’s co-pilot in the lead plane of a storied mission in the history of American air power, the bombing raid on Japan in retaliation for its attack on Pearl Harbor months earlier, died on Tuesday in San Antonio. He was 103 and the last survivor of the 80 Doolittle raiders, who carried out America’s first strikes against the Japanese homeland in World War II.

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