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  • David Thatcher, Part of ’42 Doolittle Raid on Japan, Dies at 94

    06/23/2016 2:54:05 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 16 replies
    NY Times ^ | June 22, 2016 | Richard Goldstein
    David Thatcher, an Army Air Force gunner who was decorated for helping to save the lives of four severely wounded fellow crewmen in the Doolittle Raid on Japan of April 1942, America’s first strike against the Japanese homeland in World War II, died on Wednesday in Missoula, Mont. He was 94 and the next-to-last survivor among the mission’s 80 airmen. His death, announced by his family through the Garden City Funeral Home in Missoula, leaves Richard Cole, age 100, as the last surviving veteran of a legendary chapter in Air Force history. Mr. Cole was a co-pilot alongside Lt. Col....