Billy Fiske
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title:
Billy Fiske
text:
William Meade Lindsley Fiske III was an American combat fighter pilot and Olympic bobsledder. At the 1928 and 1932 Winter Olympics, Fiske won gold as driver for the US bobsledding team, also acting as the American Olympic flagbearer in 1932. When World War II broke out in 1939, Fiske traveled to the UK and joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, claiming to be Canadian in order to be permitted to enlist. He would participate in the Battle of Britain, before being killed in action on 17 Aug
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American bobsledder and fighter pilot
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fiske
date created:
2005-02-18T17:42:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T14:37:08Z
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