{"id":31278,"date":"2015-04-01T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31278"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:29:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:29:24","slug":"ltcol-robert-hite-doolittle-raider-dies-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/01\/ltcol-robert-hite-doolittle-raider-dies-at-95\/","title":{"rendered":"LtCol Robert Hite, Doolittle Raider, Dies at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/hite.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Hite as a POW after the Doolittle Raid\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LtCol Robert Hite, one of the last three living Doolittle Raiders, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2015\/03\/30\/lt-col-robert-hite-doolittle-tokyo-raiders-dies-at-5\/\">died Sunday<\/a> at the age of 95.\u00a0 Hite was a POW of the Japanese after the raid for the remainder of the war, until his camp was liberated three years later in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>With his death, <!--more-->LtCol Richard &#8220;Dick&#8221; Cole and SSgt David Thatcher are the last two of the 80 men who participated in the daring raid on Tokyo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LtCol Robert Hite, one of the last three living Doolittle Raiders, died Sunday at the age of 95.\u00a0 Hite was a POW of the Japanese after the raid for the remainder of the war, until his camp was liberated three years later in 1945. With his death,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,4269,158,5285,2,4266,4267,123],"class_list":["post-31278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-david-thatcher","tag-doolittle","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-richard-cole","tag-robert-hite","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}