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Richard E. Cole
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“Well, the whole flight took 13 hours…4 to Japan, 9 hours across the water to China. No particular or dramatic things happened. We ended up thinking about what could happen, especially after Hank, our navigator, handed me a note saying we were going to end up about 180 miles short of China. We didn’t know what to think about that. But we got to China with fuel to spare, a tailwind helped us.”
Richard E. Cole (1915–2019) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dick Cole: The Last Doolittle Raider" (2017)
“When I think about it, the mission was not a highly dangerous affair. You could do something about it if there was a problem. But, looking back, I’d say we were pretty lucky.”
Richard E. Cole (1915–2019) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dick Cole: The Last Doolittle Raider" (2017)
“To the gentlemen we lost on the mission and to those who have passed away since, thank you very much and may they rest in peace.”
Richard E. Cole (1915–2019) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Richard Cole, 103, Last Survivor of Doolittle Raid on Japan, Dies" in The New York Times (9 April 2019)
“I was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. As a young kid I used to ride my bicycle from where we lived three or four miles to McCook Field, the Army Air Corps’ first test base. I got to watch all the old-timers. They were testing air refueling, dropping a hose out of one airplane that was higher than another.”
Richard E. Cole (1915–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our airplane had incendiary bombs. Our mission was to light up Tokyo.”
Richard E. Cole (1915–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We placed the B-25 in the middle of the deck, with about seven feet between the right wingtip and the ship’s island. The Navy had painted a white line down the deck for the left main gear and another for the nose gear. We taxied up and revved the engine. A launcher picked the appropriate time, the peak of an up movement with the water, and the carrier just dropped out from underneath the airplane. We got off a good 20 or 30 feet from the end of the deck.”
Richard E. Cole (1915–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only thing we could do was fly until we ran out of gas and then bail out. It was dark, and we didn’t know anything about the terrain except that it was mountainous, but that was the only alternative, unless you wanted to commit suicide. We bailed out at around 9,000 feet.”
Richard E. Cole (1915–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The raid was designed to do two things. One was to let the Japanese people know their leaders were not being truthful by saying Japan couldn’t be bombed by air. The other was to give the Allies, and particularly the United States, a morale shot in the arm.”
Richard E. Cole (1915–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No, we were just doing our job, part of the big picture, and happy that what we did was helpful. We couldn’t have done it without the Navy. They risked two of their carriers and quite an armada.”
Richard E. Cole (1915–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source