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Old 31st October 2013, 00:48
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One of my heroes has passed away recently, General Robinson Risner USAF.
I can remember being at work one morning in the mid sixties and seeing a copy of Time Magazine on a chair. There was a picture of a Thunderchief pilot on the cover. I read the article and I've always loved the F105 and it's pilots ever since..
He wrote a book in later years called "The Passing Of The Night".
Strangely enough some time after he was shot down and captured a fellow pilot James H. Kasler, also appeared in an article in Time, (which I also read!) and he too was shot down shortly afterwards...
I'm pretty sure no more pilots gave interviews to Time Magazine after this...
http://www.burrusspta.org/robinsonrisner.html
From Craig Baker's fine site.....
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