Editing Doolittle Raid (section)

===Last surviving airmen===
Col. [[Bill Bower]], the last surviving Doolittle raider aircraft commander, died on 10 January 2011 at age 93 in [[Boulder, Colorado]].<ref name=camera>{{cite news |author=<!-- staff writer; no by-line.--> |title=Col. William Marsh 'Bill' Bower, February 13, 1917 – January 10, 2011 |department=Obituaries |date=12 January 2011 |work=[[Boulder Daily Camera]] |url=https://www.dailycamera.com/2011/01/10/col-william-marsh-bill-bower/ |access-date=5 October 2020 |archive-date=10 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010095353/http://www.dailycamera.com/obits/ci_17057961?source=most_emailed |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=wp>Rees Shapiro, T. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/13/AR2011011306740.html "Bill Bower, last surviving bomber pilot of WWII Doolittle Raid, dies at 93"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190110003640/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/13/AR2011011306740.html |date=10 January 2019 }}. ''[[The Washington Post]]'', 15 January 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2011.</ref>

Lt. Col. [[Edward Saylor]], the then-enlisted engineer/gunner of aircraft No. 15 during the raid, died 28 January 2015 of natural causes at his home in [[Sumner, Washington]], at the age of 94.<ref name=latimes>Chawkins, Steve. [http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-edward-saylor-20150203-story.html "Edward Saylor dies at 94; Doolittle Raider who flew risky WWII raid"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210233155/http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-edward-saylor-20150203-story.html |date=10 February 2015 }}. ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', 2 February 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.</ref>

Lt. Col. Robert L. Hite, co-pilot of aircraft No. 16, died at a nursing home in [[Nashville, Tennessee]], at the age of 95 on 29 March 2015.<ref name="Times-Hite obit">{{cite news |title=Robert Hite, 95, Survivor of Doolittle Raid and Japanese Imprisonment, Dies |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=30 March 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/us/robert-l-hite-survivor-of-doolittle-raid-and-japanese-imprisonment-dies-at-95.html |access-date=5 October 2020 |archive-date=5 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105235031/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/us/robert-l-hite-survivor-of-doolittle-raid-and-japanese-imprisonment-dies-at-95.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=foxnews>[http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/30/lt-col-robert-hite-doolittle-tokyo-raiders-dies-at-5/?intcmp=latestnews "Lt. Col. Robert Hite, of 'Doolittle Tokyo Raiders,' dead at 95"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150331052023/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/30/lt-col-robert-hite-doolittle-tokyo-raiders-dies-at-5/?intcmp=latestnews |date=31 March 2015 }}. Fox News, 30 March 2015.</ref> Hite was the last living prisoner of the Doolittle Raid.

S/Sgt. David J. Thatcher, gunner of aircraft No. 7, died on 22 June 2016 in [[Missoula, Montana]], at the age of 94.

Lt Col. [[Richard E. Cole]], Doolittle's copilot in aircraft No. 1, was the last surviving Doolittle Raider<ref>Joyce, Todd. [http://www.doolittleraider.com/raiders/cole.htm "Richard E. Cole, 0-421602, Colonel, Co-Pilot Crew 1"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009120546/http://www.doolittleraider.com/raiders/cole.htm |date=9 October 2012 }}. Doolittle Tokyo Raiders, 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2012.</ref> and the only one to live to an older age than Doolittle, who died in 1993 at age 96.{{refn|group=note |Frank Kappeler and Thomas Griffin also lived to age 96, but did not live as many months as Doolittle.}} Cole was the only Raider still alive when the wreckage of ''Hornet'' was found in late January 2019 by the [[research vessel]] {{RV|Petrel||2}} at a depth of more than {{convert|17000|ft}} off the Solomon Islands.<ref>{{cite news|title=Wreckage of World War II aircraft carrier USS ''Hornet'' discovered|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uss-hornet-wreckage-world-war-two-warship-discovered/|website=CBS News|date=12 February 2019|access-date=12 February 2019|archive-date=26 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026145829/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uss-hornet-wreckage-world-war-two-warship-discovered/|url-status=live}}</ref> Cole died 9 April 2019, at the age of 103.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1809760/lt-col-dick-cole-last-surviving-doolittle-raider-passes-away-at-age-103/|title=Lt Col Dick Cole, last surviving Doolittle Raider, passes away at age 103|last=Stephens|first=Andrew|date=9 April 2019|work=Af.mil|publisher=United Air Force|access-date=10 April 2019|archive-date=10 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410112945/https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1809760/lt-col-dick-cole-last-surviving-doolittle-raider-passes-away-at-age-103/|url-status=live}}</ref>