Robin Olds
Robin Olds (1922-2007) was a US Air Force fighter pilot. A triple ace, he achieved a combined total of sixteen victories in World War II and the Vietnam War. Born into an army family in Honolulu and raised in Virginia, he was educated at West Point, where he was an All American football player. He was promoted to brigadier general after Vietnam and served as Commandant of Cadets at the US Air Force Academy.
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Fighter Pilot
- By: Robin Olds
- Narrator: Robertson Dean
- Length: 17 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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A larger-than-life hero with a towering personality, Robin Olds was a graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army. In World War II, Olds quickly became a top fighter... Read more
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