{"id":44184,"date":"2019-04-10T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=44184"},"modified":"2021-04-01T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:47:15","slug":"dick-cole-last-doolittle-raider-dies-at-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/10\/dick-cole-last-doolittle-raider-dies-at-103\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cole, Last Doolittle Raider, Dies at 103"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46019\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/doolittlecole.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/doolittlecole.png 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/doolittlecole-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/doolittlecole-768x244.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/>Retired LtCol Richard &#8220;Dick&#8221; Cole, the co-pilot to Jimmy Doolittle and last surviving member of the raid, died yesterday at the age of 103.<\/p>\n<p>The story was reported yesterday by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwfdailynews.com\/news\/20190409\/last-doolittle-raider-dies-lt-col-richard-dick-cole-passes-at-103\">NWF Daily News<\/a> before being <!--more-->picked up by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/last-wwii-doolittle-raider-dies-at-103\">larger media<\/a> this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The men who flew the Doolittle Raid left a humble legacy of sacrifice. Would that men and women today follow that example.<\/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>Retired LtCol Richard &#8220;Dick&#8221; Cole, the co-pilot to Jimmy Doolittle and last surviving member of the raid, died yesterday at the age of 103. The story was reported yesterday by the NWF Daily News before being<\/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":[158,5285,2,4266],"class_list":["post-44184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-doolittle","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-richard-cole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44184","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=44184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46020,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44184\/revisions\/46020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}