RIP, General.
Thanks for your service.
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BG Hayes flew out of New Guinea in the Pacific in P-39s and P-40s before transitioning to P-51s en route to Europe. He was shot down once by a Zero over Java, flew 143 combat missions, and had 10.5 confirmed kills (2 Japs, 8.5 Nazis) and a probable. That makes him a double ace. He retired in 1970. Well done, Sir.
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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