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Youngest is Lieut. Colonel Chesley Gordon Peterson, 22-year-old executive operations officer of the Army Air Corps' Fourth Group in Britain. A tall, lean, hay-haired farm boy from Santaquin, Utah (pop. 1,115), he has been fighting in the air for nearly three years, has flown in battle across the Channel more than 100 times. Thrown out of the U.S. Air Corps when his age was discovered, he enlisted with the R.A.F. a year and four months before Pearl Harbor, left for England on his 20th birthday. He led the R.A.F.'s First Eagle Squadron...
...read your issue of Dec. 14 with great interest but we believe we have discovered an error in your story of Lieut. Colonel "Buzz" Wagner in which you state that he was (at 26) the youngest officer of his rank in the Army. Lieut. Colonel Chesley Gordon Peterson of Santaquin, Utah is his junior by four years. Lieut. Colonel Peterson, former leader of the American Eagle Squadron, is now stationed in England with the A.A.F. AVIATION CADET J. A. LOWRY AVIATION CADET J. A. LINDQUIST...
...sultry Sunday morning in August 1928, a long-legged, eight-year-old youngster stood in his father's alfalfa patch near Santaquin, Utah. Suddenly an airplane cleared its way through the haze, circled the field a few times, landed a few feet from the boy. The pilot, for no apparent reason, called to the boy and asked him if he would like a lift. The boy said his father was down at the Mormon Church at the moment, and he wouldn't mind going if they were back before church was out. So they took off, flipped around...
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