I recently had the honor of meeting one of the four surviving Doolittle Raiders,
Lt. Col. Richard E. "Dick" Cole (Ret.) at an airshow.
I am pleased to report that this hero is sharp as a tack, joked with me, and is in excellent health for a 98 year old man.
Lieutenant (at the time) Cole was Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot in Crew Number One for the raid on the Japanese home land.