Has anyone on this forum met
Eddie Rickenbacker?
While living in Zurich, Switzerland, I sent him a fan letter (I was 16 at the time) and irony of ironies, I was in the US for summer vacation in 1973 when we learned that Eddie had died in a Zurich hospital! This was in July. When we got back to Zurich, there was a letter waiting for me from his secretary saying that he had been hospitalized. I still have the letter.
This was one of the great disappointments in my WW1 aviation "experience".
marc