{"id":30425,"date":"2019-04-17T22:35:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T22:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/04\/17\/for-doolittle-raider-dick-cole-a-grand-farewell-planned-on-thursday\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:56:02","slug":"for-doolittle-raider-dick-cole-a-grand-farewell-planned-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2019\/04\/17\/for-doolittle-raider-dick-cole-a-grand-farewell-planned-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"For Doolittle Raider Dick Cole, a grand farewell planned on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Top Air Force commanders, elected officials, and civic leaders will be among the many expected to pay their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2019\/04\/12\/memorial-for-dick-cole-last-of-doolittle-raiders-to-be-held-on-77th-anniversary-of-his-legendary-mission\/?utm_campaign=Socialflow+AIR&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_medium=social\" target=_blank>last respects to Lt. Col. Richard \u201cDick\u201d Cole<\/a>, the final surviving member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historynet.com\/dick-cole-last-of-the-doolittle-raiders.htm\" target=_blank>Doolittle Raiders<\/a>, at his memorial service at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph in Texas on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The memorial service will begin at 3 p.m. local Texas time (4 p.m. Eastern time) that day, at the base\u2019s Hangar 41, on the 77th anniversary of the audacious bomber raid on mainland Japan during World War II. Eighty U.S. Army Air Forces airmen, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/veterans\/2015\/04\/17\/doolittle-raiders-receive-congressional-gold-medal\/\" target=_blank>Lt. Col. 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