Word: gabreski
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer you stay up destroying other aircraft in time of battle," mused Colonel Francis S. Gabreski, 48, "the luckier you've got to be." By that measure, the retiring commander of the 52nd Fighter Wing at New York's Suffolk County Air Force Base is the luckiest man in the air. Though it has been 15 years since his last combat mission, the Colonel is still the nation's top-ranked living combat ace, with 371 kills to his credit from World War II and Korea. Gabreski is leaving the Air Force...