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In this March 5, 2019, photo, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Dick Cole speaks with well-wishers following a ceremony at Hurlburt Field in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on marking the 75th anniversary of Operation Thursday. Retired Lt. Col. Richard &quot;Dick&quot; Cole, the last of the 80 Doolittle Tokyo Raiders who carried out the daring U.S. attack on Japan during World War II, has died at a military hospital in Texas. He was 103. A spokesman says Cole died Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. (Devon Ravine/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP, File)

Doolittle Raiders’ Lt. Col. Richard E. Cole dies

By Jim Roberts

FILE - In this April 18, 2015, file photo, two members of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders, retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Richard &quot;Dick&quot; Cole, seated front, and retired Staff Sgt. David Thatcher, seated left, pose for photos after the presentation of a Congressional Gold Medal honoring the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The last surviving Doolittle Tokyo Raider is still telling his World War II stories, and he enjoys hearing new ones passed down to younger generations. (AP Photo/Gary Landers, File)

Historic WWII raid lives on with Doolittle survivor, now 103

By DAN SEWELL - Associated Press

Last Doolittle Raider, 101, recalls attack 75 years later

By DAN SEWELL - Associated Press