RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
The Shamrock Court Motel in Sullivan, Missouri. It can be yours for $125,000. Lots of possibilities. Actually, now you're too late. Missouri's Roamin' Rich bought it.
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Funeral for Dayton Native, Doolittle Raider, Richard Cole Set For Today
From the April 18, 2019, Springfield (Ohio) News-Sun.
Dayton, Ohio, native Richard Cole, the last surviving member of the Doolittle Raiders, will be honored today during a memorial service at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.
Lt. Col. Richard "Dick" Cole was born in Dayton September 7, 1915, and graduated from Steele High School in Dayton and attended two years of college at Ohio University in Athens before enlisting as an aviation cadet on Nov. 22, 1940. Receiving orders to report to Parks Air College in East St. Louis, Illinois, for training before arriving at Randolph Field, Texas, and later Kelly Field in Texas where he completed pilot training and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in July 1941.
He retired from the Air Force in 1966 with a whole lot of honors and medals as well as a Congressional Gold Medal given in 20014 for all of the Doolittle Raiders.
At the bottom of the article is a place for you to click titled "Photos: Doolittle Raiders through the years." Well worth a browse through.
Like I Said, the Greatest Generation.
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