Doolittle Tokyo Raider Dick Cole was a 'national hero'

U.S. Air Force Retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole, who served as Jimmy Doolittle’s copilot as they flew the first North American B–25 Mitchell bomber off the USS Hornet on April 18, 1942, to bomb Tokyo during World War II, died April 9 at the age of 103. Cole was the last living Doolittle Tokyo Raider.

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