Word: warbirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rules of fate and chance, that scarred and willful old warbird, Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, should have been back home in Columbus, Ohio last week with a cane, a bad temper, a book of yellowed clippings and a half interest in a suburban gas station. Instead, after 38 years of derring-do, he was one of America's most famous and successful men-not only a kind of Buffalo Bill of the gasoline age, but an intimate of rulers, and a self-made captain of industry as well...
...days he was the flotilla's Captain Bligh. The pilot, 27-year-old Captain William Cherry, was in command, and Rick-enbacker's friend, Colonel Hans Christian Adamson, 52, was the ranking officer. But the old warbird-dressed in a grey felt hat, business suit, shirt, tie and high-laced shoes-gave orders...
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