Surviving Doolittle Raider flies on restored D-Day plane
Dick Cole is the only man left of the 80 who flew the famous Doolittle Raid over Tokyo in 1942
June 7, 2018
An ex-United States Air Force C-47A Skytrain, previously belonging to Wings Venture, displays at the Cotswold Air Show at Cotswold Airport, Kemble, Gloucestershire, England.
Sig Christenson
Houston Chronicle
It was a morning for firsts Wednesday as about 80 people gathered in San Marcos to mark the 74th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
The sole surviving crewman of the Doolittle Raid, the first U.S. offensive action in the Pacific war, flew in a restored C-47 Skytrain — the British called them “Dakotas†— that led 13,000 paratroopers over Normandy on the morning of June 6, 1944.
Dick Cole, the only man left of the 80 who flew the famous Doolittle Raid over Tokyo in 1942, slowly climbed into the cargo hold of the aircraft named “That’s All Brother,†which the Commemorative Air Force had spent around $3.5 million to buy and renovate. It carried the first American paratroopers into France, the organization said.
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