Robert L. Hite, an Army Air Forces aviator who was captured by the Japanese and imprisoned for 40 months after flying in the Doolittle raid of 1942, the now­celebrated mission that invigorated ...

Lt. Col. Robert L. Hite, a South Plains native and a co-pilot in the Col. Jimmy Doolittle raid on Tokyo on April 18, 1942, will be remembered in funeral services at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. John ...

Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Hite, the last survivor among eight crewmen who were captured by the Japanese when US bombers brought World War II home to Japan in Jimmy Doolittle’s daring air raid ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Lt. Col. Robert Hite, one of the famed World War II "Doolittle Tokyo Raiders," has died. He was 95. Wallace Hite told The Associated Press that his father died Sunday morning ...

In 1955, Hite moved his family to Arkansas where he took a job as manager of a hotel. Here in 1961, he hosted a convention of Doolittle Raid veterans.

They are: Dick Cole (a Dayton, Ohio, native and the copilot of Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, the leader of the raid and its namesake), Robert Hite, Edward Saylor and David Thatcher.

Known as the Doolittle Raiders, the 80 men who risked their lives on a World War II bombing mission on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor were toasted one last time by their surviving comrades ...

Hite was a co-pilot on the last of 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers to lift off the flight deck of the USS Hornet, one of 80 airmen led by then Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle flying the first bombing raid ...

Hite is the last survivor of eight Raiders who were captured by Japanese soldiers. Three were executed and another died in captivity.

The last remaining members of Doolittle's Raiders will drink their final toast to their comrades of the 1942 raid over Tokyo.

Known as the Doolittle Raiders, the 80 men who risked their lives on a World War II bombing mission on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor were toasted one last time by their surviving comrades ...