Staff Sgt. David Thatcher was 94 when he died on June 29 in Missoula. 74 years ago Thatcher was a 20 year old tail gunner/engineer on the 7th B-25 to take off from the USS Hornet. There remains only one of those 80 famous flyers who showed Japan that they had made a terrible mistake when they "kicked the sleeping giant" and took the fight to the heart of Japan just four months after December 7, 1941.
The remaining flyer is Lt. Col. Dick Cole, 100 years. Col. Cole was Doolittle's Co-Pilot in B-25 #1 that historic day and last year joined Thatcher at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Ohio to accept the Congressional Gold Medal on behalf of the Raiders. Just thought you should know!....Medicineman!
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