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The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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Eddie Rickenbacker
Age: 82 †
Born: 1890
Born: October 8
Died: 1973
Died: July 23
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Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
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