Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Richard E. Cole, Doolittle Raider (1915 - 2019)


From Wikipedia.

Richard Eugene Cole (September 7, 1915 - April 9, 2019)

A career officer in the United States Air Force.  He was one of the airmen who took part in the Doolittle Raid, April 18, 1942, serving as the co-pilot to Jimmy Doolittle in the lead airplane on the raid.  He eventually reached the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Cole remained in China after the raid until June 1943, and served again in the China Burma India Theater from  October 1943 until June 1944.  He later served as Operations Advisor to the Venezuelan Air Force from 1959-1962.  He retired from the Air Force in 1916 and became the last surviving Doolittle Raider in 2016.

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