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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

Thomas C. Griffin, one of five surviving Doolittle Raiders, listens to questions in Dayton, Ohio, during the 70th anniversary celebration of the World War II mission to bomb Japan four months after Pearl Harbor. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

Doolittle Raid survivors prove an inspiration

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A B-25 Mitchell bomber slowly moves down the tarmac before taking off from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on Wednesday to commemorate the attack by the Doolittle Raiders on Japan in 1942. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

Doolittle Raiders lift spirits sky-high at commemoration

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times