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...Dean Hess, a studious lad from Marietta, Ohio, decided that he would rather fight than preach. He was a 23-year-old ordained minister in the Church of the Disciples of Christ when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor; the next day, Hess enlisted as an air cadet. After winning his wings, he taught flying for two years, then went off to the ETO as a fighter pilot, piled up 62 missions and won the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross...
...North Korean invasion last summer found Major Hess in Japan as an information and education official. The pathetic South Korean air force, which had no combat planes, was given ten F51 Mustangs, but could not fly them properly. Dean Hess was rushed to Taegu to become "adviser" to the South Korean flyers. Actually he became their trainer, beloved leader, and most dogged and enthusiastic fighter. They called him "Mister United States...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Pianist Myra Hess...
...Whose son, the present Duke of Hamilton, was the owner of the estate near Glasgow where Rudolf Hess landed...
...Dark, slender Major Dean Hess, a 32-year-old World War II fighter pilot, landed at a South Korean airstrip one day last week to report a highly successful strafing mission. Hess had spotted four Communist boats crossing the Kum River east of Taejon. He burned and strafed the boats, wheeled and roared back at the target again. Fleeing Red soldiers were scrambling up the river bank. Hess's six machine guns laced a pattern of lead along the bank. "I looked back," he said, "and there were 30 soldiers stretched out flatter than pancakes." He grinned, then checked...