Remember the last Doolittle Raider....RIP Dick Cole

[Theowl32]

Should be a whole lot more made about this....

A few years ago, they made the final toast...



RIP Dick Cole 1915-2019

Some of us will always appreciate all of you.

 

[Claudette]

A brave bunch of men and real Americans.

RIP.

 

[August West]

A brave bunch of men and real Americans.

RIP.

Good point. Dick Cole could have gone the "bone spurs" route.

 

[Claudette]

Hell. If you had flat feet you would have been in the military, even during WWII.

You really are a whinny little shit.

 

[Silent Warrior]

Good point. Dick Cole could have gone the "bone spurs" route.

Sad when someone is so feeble minded that they take a tribute to a fallen hero and try to use it for partisan politics. It's even sadder when, as in this case, they show they don't even understand what they are saying, but prattle on anyway.

 

[B. Kidd]

Should be a whole lot more made about this....

A few years ago, they made the final toast...



RIP Dick Cole 1915-2019

Some of us will always appreciate all of you.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Colonel Cole.
Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.

 

[whitehall]

These

A brave bunch of men and real Americans.

RIP.

Good point. Dick Cole could have gone the "bone spurs" route.

George Bush Sr. was a genuine WW2 hero and the same folks who criticize Trump also criticized Bush as a "wimp" even though his political opponent was a genuine draft dodger so spare us the "bone spurs" routine. Those Doolittle guys had to be in their 20's in 1942 so it's no surprise that the last one passed on. Halsey always got a break even though his cold feet after the Japanese picket boat was sunk forced some of the Doolittle raiders to almost certain death when they were ordered to take off well before the agreed launching point and they ran out of gas before reaching the landing zone in China..

 

[B. Kidd]

These

A brave bunch of men and real Americans.

RIP.

Good point. Dick Cole could have gone the "bone spurs" route.

George Bush Sr. was a genuine WW2 hero and the same folks who criticize Trump also criticized Bush as a "wimp" even though his political opponent was a genuine draft dodger so spare us the "bone spurs" routine. Those Doolittle guys had to be in their 20's in 1942 so it's no surprise that the last one passed on. Halsey always got a break even though his cold feet after the Japanese picket boat was sunk forced some of the Doolittle raiders to almost certain death when they were ordered to take off well before the agreed launching point and they ran out of gas before reaching the landing zone in China..

Yupp!
It was a one-way trip when they took off.