Death of Doolittle Raider Lt.Col. Robert Hite-- Part 1

From the March 30, 2015, Fox News "Lt.Col. Robert Hite of Doolittle Tokyo Raiders,' dead at 95.

Mr. Hite died at a nursing facility Sunday, March 29, 2015, in Nashville where he had been battling Alzheimer's.

He was among the 80 raisers in 16 B-25 bombers who took off from the deck of the USS Hornet in April 1942 on their historic attack on Japan.  They inflicted little actual damage, but the lift to American morale for this strike back so so after Pearl Harbor was huge.

Of the 80 brave men, eight were captured and of them, three executed and one more died while in prison.  Hite was one of those captured and was the last survivor of those.

The Greatest generation.  --GreGen