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  • type like Eddie Rickenbacker. Then we hoped we could add to this some prominent World War II flying people. We had hoped we could get some of the real early barnstorming aviators--the Wing Walkers and stunt men and so forth. We wanted to tie in some
  • Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker
  • , served in World War II in submarines in the Pacific, in 1949 got a doctorate in Physical Metallurgy from Stanford, and from 1949 to 1968 worked for General Electric-the last five years as manager of their Tempo--GE's Center for Advanced Studies--in Santa