The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh (75 page)

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Unpublished material from the diaries of Harold Nicolson, quoted in Mosley,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.