Thatcher died at age 94 Wednesday in Montana, after suffering a massive stroke on Sunday, Father’s Day, the Missoulian reported.
At 100 years old, Cole, a Dayton native who lives in Comfort, Texas, is the last survivor of the fabled 80 Army Air Force airmen who lifted the morale of a nation at war. They launched 16 B-25 bombers off the USS Hornet on a daring raid April 18, 1942 in the first U.S. strike against the Japanese homeland since a devastating attack on Pearl Harbor four months earlier.
“He’s right now probably going through the worst time in his life because he’s lost one of his best friends, but now he stands alone as the last Doolittle Raider left,” Tom Casey, the Raiders’ long-time business manager, said Thursday.
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