From the June 22, 2016, Fox News "One of two remaining airmen who flew in World War II 'Doolittle Raid' dies." by AP.
Retired Army Staff sergeant David Jonathan Thatcher died June 22, 2016, at age 94, in Missoula, Montana. That leaves just Lt. Col. Richard "Dick" Cole remains of the eighty airmen who flew 16 B-25 bombers against Japan on April 18, 1942. This gave a huge boost to U.S. morale which was still down because of Pearl Harbor and a string of defeats in the Pacific afterwards.
Mr. thatcher was an engineer-gunner on the plane named "Ruptured Duck."
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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