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...ring was a natural air fighter, quick-thinking, resourceful, ruthless. Although the story of how he spared the life of an enemy flier whose machine gun jammed is legend in Germany today, he accounted for 36 enemy planes. He won the Iron Cross and Germany's highest decoration for valor, Pour le Mérite. He was wounded in 1915 and again disobeyed orders, by returning directly to the front instead of reporting to a reserve squadron. After the death of Manfred von Richthofen and his successor, a Captain Reinhard, Göring took command of Richthofen...
...drifted from one thing to another. He was a mechanic, a laborer, a commercial flier. Flying the Swedish explorer, Count Eric von Rosen, back to his castle at Rockelstad, Göring met Rosen's sister-in-law, Karin, and fell in love with her. She divorced her husband, married Göring...
...World War I flier and post-war engineer, affable, able Dr. Todt planned the German system of superhighways, designed most of the Westwall fortifications. In his new post he holds practically all the strings of German industry and technique, will answer only to Göring and his Führer...
Down a gangplank in Jersey City after almost three years as a prisoner of General Franco marched Flier Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl, and bussed his blonde wife, Edith Rogers Dahl, who helped to publicize him by sending her picture to General Franco with a plea that she should not be made a widow (TIME...
Died. Henry Tindall Merrill Jr., 11-month-old son of Flier "Dick" Merrill and Cinemactress Toby Wing; of suffocation (he was first thought to have strangled in his bedclothes); in Forest Hills...