#VeteranOfTheDay Army Air Forces Veteran Robert Hite - VA News

Lt. Col. Robert L. Hite, the last survivor among eight crewmen who were captured by the Japanese when American bombers brought World War II home to Japan in Jimmy Doolittle’s daring air raid in 1942, died on Sunday in Nashville. He was 95.

The cause was heart failure, his son, Wallace, said.

R.I.P Colonel.

Lt. Col. Hite knew it was a mission with a more than likely outcome of not making it back alive. And went anyway. Patton was right. We shouldn't mourn men such as him, we should than God men like him lived.

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