OT - Oldest American Ace passes away at 104

[wegman58]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/19/ww ... cmp=hplnws

[geofflambert]

This is not entirely off-topic but is rather sad.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crim ... 6bac0.html

[dr.hal]

He certainly had a long and event filled life.... So many others were cut short by that war (and all others), I'm glad to see that some did indeed live to tell the tales...

[kstoddard2]

RIP Fritz.

Kyle

[m10bob]

In the sixties, dad took me to a local Holiday Inn meeting room where we met Adolf Galland, Douglas Bader and Johnny Johnson. It was a sponsored event, cost "fans" something like five bucks to get in.
They were very animated in retelling exploits, and they knew each other intimately.

[geofflambert]

Here's the NYT obit