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FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida \u2014 Eighty gleaming silver goblets stood in a blue velvet-lined case, each engraved with the name of one of the famed Doolittle Raiders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All had been turned upside down \u2014 all but one, bearing the name Richard Cole<\/a>, co-pilot to Jimmy Doolittle. At the time of his death in 2019, the 103-year-old Cole was the last of the Raiders who had carried out the daring bombing mission over Tokyo that marked the United States\u2019 first counterpunch during World War II. That mission forced Japan to divert forces to safeguard its own island and bolstered the nation\u2019s morale after Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For decades following the war, the surviving Raiders would gather privately once a year to toast their departed comrades with fine cognac and then solemnly turn over the goblet for each man who had died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, the 80th anniversary of the raid, the final goblet ceremony was held to remember Dick Cole<\/a> and his fellow Doolittle Raiders \u2014 the last chapter of a foundational piece of Air Force lore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Raiders led the way, and many have followed,\u201d said Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, his voice heavy with emotion as he recalled what they did that day during the ceremony at Northwest Florida State College, near Eglin Air Force Base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guests of honor pause before making a toast to commemorate the Doolittle Raiders in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., April 18. 2022. From left are Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr.; Cindy Chal, the daughter of raider Col. Richard Cole; Cole\u2019s son Dr. Rich Cole; Lt. Gen. James Slife, commander of Air Force Special Operations Command; and Lt. Gen. Brad Webb, commander of Air Education and Training Command. (Eric Dietrich\/Air Force)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cole, originally from Dayton, Ohio, was just 26 years old when he volunteered for the secret mission that would turn out to be the Doolittle Raid. The Raiders trained at then-Eglin Air Field in March 1942, confined to base, in isolated barracks and strictly ordered not to talk to anyone about what they were doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe knew it would be dangerous, but that\u2019s all,\u201d Cole, who was posthumously promoted to colonel in 2021, said in a 2014 interview with HistoryNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when they started learning how to get B-25 Mitchell bombers airborne in just 500 feet, instead of the 3,000 feet they usually needed, and how to take off from a carrier, they knew they were going to strike Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cole originally wasn\u2019t supposed to be Doolittle\u2019s co-pilot. But when Doolittle\u2019s intended co-pilot became unable to fly, and the pilot Cole had been training with fell ill, the two men were paired together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The B-25s were stripped as bare as possible to lighten the load, double the fuel capacity, and allow the bombers to fly as far as they could. Even their rear defensive turrets were pulled out, and painted broomsticks installed in their place as decoy guns to try to dissuade Japanese fighters from trying to strike from the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Raiders and their 16 B-25s set sail on the aircraft carrier Hornet on April 2, 1942. When the Navy ran into a Japanese ship, Navy Adm. William \u201cBull\u201d Halsey worried their cover had been blown and decided to launch the mission earlier than planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cole described to HistoryNet how rough the conditions were, with water coming over the ship\u2019s bow and causing the planes to slip around the deck. And as the first plane to take off, Doolittle and Cole had the least amount of space to get airborne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But all 16 bombers made it into the air and reached Japan in four hours, flying about 200 feet above the sea. They pulled up when they reached Tokyo and dropped the ton of bombs each plane carried, and \u2014 without enough fuel to make it back to the carrier \u2014 flew on to China. Doolittle and Cole\u2019s bomber wasn\u2019t able to land and refuel in China as planned, so they kept flying until they ran out of gas and the crew bailed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doolittle received the Medal of Honor, and Cole and the other Raiders were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Air Force Retired Lt. Col. Richard E. “Dick” Cole, co-pilot to Jimmy Doolittle during the April 18, 1942, Doolittle Raid over Tokyo, sits at the controls of a refurbished U.S. Navy B-25 Mitchell displayed at an airshow in Burnet, Texas, in September. (Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.\/Air Force)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the HistoryNet interview, Cole called the raid \u201ca turning point in the war.\u201d The Japanese pulled forces back from Australia and India as reinforcements, and sent two carriers to Alaska, mistakenly believing that was where the raid was launched. Cole said this helped even the odds for the U.S. Navy at Midway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the mission, Doolittle promised his Raiders that if they survived, \u201cI\u2019m going to throw you guys the biggest party you\u2019ve ever seen\u201d \u2014 and after the war, he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first Doolittle Raider reunion in December 1945 was, by all accounts, legendary for the significant damage they caused to the Miami hotel in which they gathered to celebrate Doolittle\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt must have been a hell of a party,\u201d Air Force Special Operations Command head Lt. Gen. Jim Slife said at the ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When someone suggested they make the raucous event an annual occasion, Doolittle protested that he couldn\u2019t afford covering the cost of the aftermath. But in 1947, they began gathering each year on the anniversary of the raid in different locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1959, the city of Tucson, Arizona, presented them with a set of 80 sterling silver goblets, each engraved with the name of one of the Raiders. Those who had already passed had their names engraved only once, upside down. The others had their names engraved two times, once to be read right side up and the other upside down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each year, during the goblet ceremony, the Raiders would call the roll, raise a glass of 1896 Hennessey cognac \u2014 Doolittle\u2019s favorite, from the year of his birth \u2014 to those who had died since they last met, and toast \u201cTo those who have gone.\u201d At that point, the goblets of the newly departed Raiders would be reverently turned upside down and put back in the wooden case Cole built himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Monday\u2019s ceremony, Lt. Gen. Brad Webb, commander of Air Education and Training Command and former AFSOC head, said the Raiders \u201cwere instrumental in establishing the warrior ethos\u201d of what would soon become the U.S. Air Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The roll was then called one last time. One by one, an Air Force special operator in the audience stood to represent each Raider as they were named, and either they or a surviving family member responded \u201cHere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cole\u2019s children, Cindy Cole Chal and retired Air Force Lt. Col. Rich Cole, joined Kendall, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles \u201cCQ\u201d Brown, Slife and Webb on stage before the case of goblets. Brown hugged Chal, and they each took a glass of cognac Hennessey specially bottled for the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kendall delivered the traditional toast, \u201cTo the Doolittle Raiders who gave their all in success of their mission, and to those that have joined them since.\u201d All in attendance responded, \u201cTo those who have gone,\u201d and the six drained their glasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The auditorium was silent as the Air Force leaders returned to their seats onstage, while Cole\u2019s children remained in front of the goblet case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rich Cole removed his father\u2019s goblet \u2014 the only one in the case that remained upright \u2014 from the case\u2019s first column, right below Doolittle\u2019s, and handed it to his sister. Cindy Cole Chal turned it over and handed it back to her brother, who gently replaced it. All goblets were now overturned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rich Cole took a step back from the case and saluted his father and his comrades one last time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his remarks following the ceremony, Rich Cole asked all currently serving service members to stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Raider legacy stands before you,\u201d Cole said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few minutes later, the keepers of the goblets from Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, shut the four-panel case, latched it and closed the story of the Doolittle Raiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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