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As a youth, Robert Morgan was a sweet-talking ladies man who rubbed elbows with the Vanderbilts. But WWII changed this lothario into a combat soldier-as pilot of the famed Memphis Belle, Morgan oversaw a crew that flew a successful 25 missions without losing a single member…. More >>
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General Curtis Emerson LeMay – The best bombardier, best navigator, and the best pilot in his unit. General LeMay developed the tactics to win wars from the air. He led the way as the Army Air Force smashed Germany and Japan, achieving victory in World War II. He organized the Berlin Airlift and built Strategic Air Command into a nuclear threat that the Soviet Union could not ignore or defeat…. More >>
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Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager–WWII ace and the man who broke the sound barrier as depicted in the screen classic THE RIGHT STUFF. Chuck Yeager has had a larger-than-life career always poised on the edge of the envelope. He broke the sound barrier flying “Glamorous Glennis,” has won nearly every aviation award, was awarded a peacetime Medal of Honor, and was the youngest man enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame…. More >>
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Carl “Tooey” Spaatz is one of the genuine characters of American aviation. In the wild and woolly days of flight, he was a guitar-strumming free spirit who often offended the military establishment. But over the course of his career, Spaatz did as much to shape the modern Air Force as any other single person. He trained most of the American pilots who fought in WWI, pioneered air-to-air refueling, and his command of WWII’s strategic air forces forever changed the way war is… More >>
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Commander Randall Cunningham–Vietnam fighter ace and the pilot the movie TOP GUN is based on. A Vietnam War volunteer, Duke joined the Navy to do his part. He didn’t know that he would make his first air kill in January 1972 and would become the first ace of the war in May of the same year. The commander of the navy’s Top Gun school before he retired, Duke was then elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990. Always an aviator, he flies each of the navy’s aircraft… More >>
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Jan
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Joining Lockheed as a tool designer, Kelly Johnson became one of America’s foremost aircraft designers. He developed more than 40 aircraft, from the U-2 to the F-104, and was the head of Lockheed’s advanced development projects, known as the “Skunk Works.” When he retired in 1975, this tool designer had become Lockheed’s Senior Vice President…. More >>
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