{"id":6659,"date":"2019-04-09T19:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T19:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2019-04-09T19:30:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T19:30:53","slug":"last-doolittle-raider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6659","title":{"rendered":"LAST DOOLITTLE RAIDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lt. Col Richard Cole, the last Doolittle Raider, has died\u00a0 at age 103.\u00a0The end of an era.\u00a0<em>\u00a0AVE ATQUE VALE!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?attachment_id=6660\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6660\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6660\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mitchell-Bomber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4495\" height=\"3000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mitchell-Bomber.jpg 4495w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mitchell-Bomber-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mitchell-Bomber-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mitchell-Bomber-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4495px) 100vw, 4495px\" \/><\/a><strong>B25 MITCHELL BOMBER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The suicidal Doolittle Raid used modified Mitchell Bombers launched from an aircraft carrier with no hope of recovery to attack the Japanese mainland after the Pearl Harbor attack. The raid did little physical damage but gave the alliance a much needed psychological boost and the Japanese a foretaste of the terrible destruction to come.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?attachment_id=6661\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6661\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6661\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BILLY-MITCHELL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4495\" height=\"3000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BILLY-MITCHELL.jpg 4495w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BILLY-MITCHELL-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BILLY-MITCHELL-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BILLY-MITCHELL-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4495px) 100vw, 4495px\" \/><\/a><strong>&#8220;BILLY&#8221; MITCHELL HISTORICAL PLAQUE,\u00a0 MOUNT BILLY MITCHELL, ALASKA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Billy Mitchell is considered by some to be the father of the modern US Air Force. The plaque above honours his connection to Alaska.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Col Richard Cole, the last Doolittle Raider, has died\u00a0 at age 103.\u00a0The end of an era.\u00a0\u00a0AVE ATQUE VALE! B25 MITCHELL BOMBER The suicidal Doolittle Raid used modified Mitchell Bombers launched from an aircraft carrier with no hope of recovery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6659\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-historical","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6662,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions\/6662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}