The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh (75 page)
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8: I Was Saved for Some Good Purpose
1
W. David Lewis,
Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century
.
2
Ibid.
3
Ibid.
4
Finis Farr,
Rickenbacker’s Luck
.
5
Lewis,
Eddie Rickenbacker
.
6
Quoted in ibid.
7
Farr,
Rickenbacker’s Luck
.
8
Lewis,
Eddie Rickenbacker
.
9
H. Paul Jeffers,
Ace of Aces: The Life of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker
.
10
Lewis,
Eddie Rickenbacker
.
11
Ibid.
12
Jeffers,
Ace of Aces
.
13
Lewis,
Eddie Rickenbacker
.
14
Ibid.
15
Cited from
Motor Age
(1923) in ibid.
16
Farr,
Rickenbacker’s Luck
.
17
Dominic A. Pisano, “The Crash that Killed Knute Rockne,”
Air and Space/Smithsonian
6 (December 1991).
18
Quoted in
Smithsonian
(April 2013).
19
Ibid.
20
Ibid.
21
New York Times
, June 26, 1941; Rickenbacker’s autobiography; Lewis,
Eddie Rickenbacker
.
9: An Inspiration in a Grubby World
1
Leonard Mosley,
Lindbergh
.
2
New York Times
, May 23, 1927.
3
Mosley,
Lindbergh
.
4
A. Scott Berg,
Lindbergh
.
5
Charles A. Lindbergh and Fitzhugh Green,
We
.
6
Ibid.
7
Mosley,
Lindbergh
.
8
Unpublished material from the diaries of Harold Nicolson, quoted in Mosley,
Lindbergh
.
9
Berg,
Lindbergh
.
10
Mosley,
Lindbergh
.
11
Betty Rogers,
Will Rogers
(University of Oklahoma Press, reprint [1941]).
12
Quoted in John Ward,
The Meaning of Lindbergh’s Flight
.
13
All quotes here from ibid.
14
Berg,
Lindbergh
.
15
Ibid.
16
Charles Lindbergh,
The Spirit of St. Louis
, appendix.
17
Mosley,
Lindbergh
.
18
Ibid.
19
Ibid.
20
Ibid.
21
Berg,
Lindbergh
.
22
Ibid.
23
Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Bring Me a Unicorn
.
24
Ibid.
25
Berg,
Lindbergh
.
26
Ibid; also Mosley,
Lindbergh
.
27
Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Unicorn
.
28
Ibid.
29
Ibid.
30
Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead
.
31
Ibid.
32
Ibid.
33
Ibid.; Berg,
Lindbergh;
Mosley,
Lindbergh
.
34
Berg,
Lindbergh
.
35
Ibid.
36
Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Hour of Gold
.
37
George Waller,
Kidnap
(Dial Press, 1961); Berg,
Lindbergh;
Mosley,
Lindbergh;
and Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Hour of Gold
.
38
Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Hour of Gold
.
39
Walter S. Ross,
The Last Hero;
Berg,
Lindbergh;
Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Hour of Gold
.
40
Mosley,
Lindbergh
.
10: His Halo Turned into a Noose
1
William Hoffman, The Doric Column, University of Minnesota, November 1998.
2
Susan Hertog,
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
.
3
Ibid; A. Scott Berg,
Lindbergh;
Edna Ferber,
New York Times
, January 28, 1935.
4
The account of threats is from Lindbergh’s
Autobiography of Values
.
5
Berg,
Lindbergh
.
6
Lindbergh,
Autobiography of Values
.
7
The gist of the Lindberghs’ trip to Germany is from
Autobiography of Values
.
8
Ibid.
9
Berg,
Lindbergh
.
10
Ibid.
11
Lindbergh,
Autobiography of Values
.
12
Ibid.
13
Air Intelligence Activities
, Office of the Military Attaché, American Embassy, Berlin, German, August 1935–April 1939.
14
Max Wallace,
The American
Axis; Berg,
Lindbergh
.
15
Berg,
Lindbergh
.
16
Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
War Within and Without
.
17
Berg,
Lindbergh;
James P. Duffy,
Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt
.
18
Ibid.
19
Lindbergh,
War Within and Without
.
20
Duffy,
Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt
.
21
Leonard Mosley,
Lindbergh
.
11: The Raid
1
Quentin Reynolds,
The Amazing Mr. Doolittle
.
2
Duane Schultz,
The Doolittle Raid
.
3
Reynolds,
The Amazing Mr. Doolittle
.
4
Craig Nelson,
The First Heroes
.
5
Doolittle recounts this in
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again
.
6
Schultz,
Doolittle Raid
.
7
Lowell Thomas and Edward Jablonski,
Doolittle
.
8
Ted W. Lawson,
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo;
transcript of interview with Edgar McElroy, Pacific Aviation Museum, Ford Island, Oahu, Hawaii, April 2011.
9
Joseph C. Grew,
Ten Years in Japan;
Schultz,
Doolittle Raid
.
10
Schultz,
Doolittle Raid
.
11
Ibid.
12
Lawson,
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
.
13
Edgar McElroy interview.
14
The official Web site of the Doolittle Raiders,
www.doolittleraider.com
.
15
Nelson,
The First Heroes
.
16
Lt. Col. Robert G. Emmens,
Guests of the Kremlin
(New York, 1949).
17
Thomas and Jablonski,
Doolittle
.
18
Schultz,
Doolittle Raid
.
19
Thomas and Jablonski,
Doolittle
.
20
Winston Groom,
1942
(New York, 2004).
21
David Kahn,
The Codebreakers
(New York, 1967).
12: We Were Slowly Rotting Away
1
Rickenbacker,
Rickenbacker
.
2
New York Times
obituary, September 12, 1968.
3
W. David Lewis,
Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century
.
4
Lewis,
Eddie Rickenbacker;
Finis Farr,
Rickenbacker’s Luck
.
5
Hans Christian Adamson,
Eddie Rickenbacker
.
6
Lewis,
Eddie Rickenbacker;
interview with John Bartek; Booton Herndon transcripts, Special Collections and Archives, Auburn University.
7
James C. Whittaker,
We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing;
Adamson,
Eddie Rickenbacker
.
8
Adamson,
Eddie Rickenbacker;
Rickenbacker,
Seven Came Through
.
9
Rickenbacker,
Seven Came Through
.
10
Ibid; Booton Herndon transcripts.
11
Whittaker,
Angels Sing
.
12
Lewis,
Eddie Rickenbacker;
interview with Rickenbacker’s son William.