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...Airman Kepner was remarkably well fitted to be top boss in a crucial tri-service operation. As a youngster he had done a hitch in the Marines, later had marched with the Army infantry on the Mexican border. In 1917, he was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the cavalry, fought through the toughest land battles of World War I in France and won a D.S.C. for leading a patrol into a German machine-gun nest. Between wars he became an Army expert on ballooning (in 1934 got to 60,613 feet in the Explorer I before she ripped apart...
...every man, woman & child in the state. Occasionally, he went in a Beechcraft plane, piloted by his second cousin, David Ingalls, the Navy's only flying ace in World War I. More often Mr. Republican went by Ingalls' Chrysler, driven at a hair-raising rate by Airman Ingalls in a Tyrolean...
...best writing to be found in the five-inch shelf of flying literature was done by French Airman Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars, Flight to Arras). He was that rare 20th Century blend, a courageous man of action whose deepest values were spiritual. On his long airmail flights over desert and ocean, and on military missions over doomed France in 1940, his brooding imagination conceived a vision of life in which God, soul and the brotherhood of man shone through and outweighed all commonplace striving...
...Questions . . ." Airman Saint-Exupéry left behind him an unpublished testament. Now ably translated into English by British Francophile Stuart Gilbert, The Wisdom of the Sands can be read as a partial blueprint of the moral and ethical world Saint-Ex envisioned. As with most such plottings of mystical patterns, it is a hard one to follow, in this century or any other. In Wisdom, Saint-Ex imagines himself as a desert prince sharing his accumulated wisdom with his subjects (he loved the Sahara and the tradition-ruled life of its people). He is a benevolent despot, brave, warlike...
...days. Jungle Road is General Bob's story of the infantry in that war. Coming after such chesty accounts as Seaman "Bull" Halsey's and Airman George Kenney's, it seems almost sober and reflective, but it is a tribute to the embattled foot soldier and a deeply felt one. No army general spent so much time at the front and few appreciated so clearly what they were asking of their...