Raleigh Rhodes [SEP] cause of death
rank of commander.
Rhodes worked as a project planner for Lockheed Martin facility in Sunnyvale, California, for the next 30 years.
Death.
Raleigh Rhodes died of lung cancer on November 26, 2007, in San Jose, California, at the age of 89. He was survived by his wife, Pauline, two daughters and a son.
Rhodes' former wife, Betty, died in 2005. His son, Raleigh E. Rhodes Jr., also died of lung cancer in July 2007.
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Raleigh Rhodes
Raleigh Ernest Rhodes (June 26, 1918 – November 26, 2007), who often went by the nickname of Raleigh "Dusty" Rhodes, was an American World War II combat fighter pilot and the third leader of the Blue Angels flight team.
Pilot.
Rhodes was a fighter pilot based on board the USS "Enterprise" (CV-6) aircraft carrier during World War II. He was shot down and captured by Japanese forces during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in October 1942 in the