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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:

Awards and accomplishments (flying): - Combat World War II (WWII), C.P.I., P-40 - Fighter pilot 1943-1944 - 79 missions
Awards: - Air Medal with Cluster - Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) - Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) (Department of Transportation/Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Retired USAF 1962, LtCol, Command Pilot.
Some Accomplishments, all solo: Firsts: The smallest home-built aircraft a Thorp T-18 I built myself (N455DT officially N.A.A., Class C.1.b.) - Flown around the world and to Japan & the Far East. - Flown non-stop across the US. - Flown in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific, from the US to Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and return
Hold about 25 world and U.S. records. Holder of the Harmon-Inter Trophy 1984
82 yrs. old, still flying (solo)
1st license issued by CAA. Oct 1940