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Richard Cole (center) proposes a toast with two other surviving members of the 1942 Tokyo raid led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle — Edward Saylor (left) and David Thatcher — on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The fourth surviving member, Robert Hite, was unable to travel to the ceremonies. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

Final toast to World War II’s Doolittle Raiders: ‘Peace’

By Dan Sewell - Associated Press

Then-Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle (center) is surrounded by airmen at an advanced air base in Tunisia on Jan. 28, 1943. Below them, a B-25 Mitchell bomber takes off from the USS Hornet's flight deck for the bombing mission over Japan on April 19, 1942. (Associated Press photos/Illustration by The Washington Times)

Five survivors of Doolittle Tokyo Raiders recall daring sortie

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times