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Army Air Service Captain and legendary fighter pilot Eddie Rickenbacker served with distinction in both World Wars.
- Eddie Rickenbacker’s Early Life. Edward Rickenbacker was born on October 8, 1890, to Swiss immigrants in Columbus, Ohio. He was the third-oldest of seven children in the Rickenbacker household.
- Fighting In World War I. After America officially entered World War I in 1917, Eddie Rickenbacker immediately joined the army as a mechanic and automobile driver for Gen.
- Eddie Rickenbacker Becomes America’s Top World War I Flying Ace. On April 29, 1918, Eddie Rickenbacker shot down his first enemy aircraft. By the end of May, he scored five individual victories to earn him the official title of “ace,” as well as the French Croix de Guerre.
- A Natural Pilot. Eddie Rickenbacker’s secret was simple: “The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risk. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not get shot down.”
Eddie Rickenbacker Lost at Sea. As a nonmilitary observer, WWI Ace Eddie Rickenbacker had a mission to evaluate and report the status of U.S. Army Air Forces in the Pacific theatre during WWII. Unsuccessfully searching for Canton Island and low on fuel, their B-17 went down in the Pacific Ocean. Rickenbacker and the crew were adrift in life ...
Because Eddie Rickenbacker had played a somewhat modest role in the history of Delta Airlines that I coauthored, so when one of my friends at the University of Georgia assigned me ten or twelve articles to write for an encyclopedia he threw Eddie Rickenbacker into the mix and I agreed to write an article on Eddie Rickenbacker.
