According to their website, there are now four surviving raiders. The most recent to pass on was Major Thomas Griffin, the navigator on Crew 9. He survived the mission over Japan and went on to join a bomber unit in North Africa. He was shot down on a subsequent mission and spent the rest of the war in a German POW camp.
Major Griffin rejoined his comrades on February 26th of this year.
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I got Griffin’s autograph at an air show about 12 years ago. I treasure it because he’s an American legend. RIP T.G.