The last surviving member of the Doolittle Raiders was Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” E. Cole. He died in 2019 at age 103.

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Cole was Doolittle’s co-pilot on the lead B-25 during the 1942 raid on Japan. He was widely recognized as the last living Raider after the other members had passed away.

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