In this March 5, 2019, photo, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Dick Cole speaks with well-wishers following a ceremony at Hurlburt Field in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on marking the 75th anniversary of Operation Thursday. Retired Lt. Col. Richard "Dick" Cole, the last of the 80 Doolittle Tokyo Raiders who carried out the daring U.S. attack on Japan during World War II, has died at a military hospital in Texas. He was 103. A spokesman says Cole died Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. (Devon Ravine/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP, File)
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