On April 9, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Richard E. Cole, the last surviving member of the famed Doolittle Tokyo Raiders, died at 103 in a hospital in San Antonio, Texas. Seventy-seven years earlier, on ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Remembered as a man who faithfully served his country and was a devoted father and a man of faith, Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole, the last of the ...

On April 9, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Richard E. Cole, the last surviving member of the famed Doolittle Tokyo Raiders, died at age 103 in a hospital in San Antonio, Texas. Seventy-seven years earlier ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 18, let’s remember the Doolittle Raiders’ attack on Japan on that day in 1942. West Warwick’s Omer A. Duquette served as ...

82 years ago today Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle led the audacious first U.S. airstrike on mainland Japan from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet in what became known as the “Doolittle Raid”. In ...

Retired Air Force Col. Dick Cole, the last of the famed Doolittle Raiders from World War II, poses in front of a B-25B Mitchell bomber at the Air Force Armament Museum at Eglin Air Force Base in 2017.

As a patriotic American, over the next several years, you should honor and remember, with justifiable pride, the 80th anniversary of many major events of World War II. The first of these memorable ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas — A legendary chapter in Air Force history has come to a close. Retired Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” E. Cole, the last survivor of the “Doolittle Raid,” died April 9, ...

April 18, marks the 82nd anniversary of the famed Doolittle Raiders attack in and around Tokyo. Of the 80 B-25 bomber airmen who flew off of the USS Hornet, 13 were Texans. No other state had as many ...

Five months after the humiliation of Pearl Harbor, Col. Jimmy Doolittle led a sneak attack to bomb Tokyo. But in order to make it all the way to Tokyo, Doolittle and his 79-man squadron wouldn't have ...

Alan E. Mesches is the author of "The Flying Grunt, the Story of Lieutenant General Richard E. Carey United States Marine Corps, (Ret.)" and "Major General James A. Ulio, How the Adjutant General of ...