Robin Olds was an American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force. He was a "triple ace", with a combined total of 16 victories in World War II and the Vietnam War. He retired in 1973 as a brigadier general. Born into a regular Army family, educated at West Point, and the product of an upbringing in the early years of the U.S. Army Air Corps, Olds epitomized the youthful World War II fighter pilot. Wikipedia
Gen. Robin Olds, USAF (Ret.), recalls himself as the proverbial "new boy on the block" with the 8th TFW, as yet unproven in the jet air war of Southeast Asia. www.afa.org/magazine/Nov1998/1198mig.asp
In World War II, a fighter pilot was considered past his prime at 25, his reflexes and aggressiveness dangerously eroded. Even in Korea, the younger jet jockeys sneered over their bourbon at the... www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,902043-1,00.html
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