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...these times of paucity of respect for the past, let us not tamper with the grassy slopes that extend out toward the crass commercialism of Slough . . . If the first Duke of Wellington did not say this in so many words, then one of his post-cedents should have. HARRY HESS New York City...
...They had gone to seek out Russian agents on the same type of crack-brained peace mission that drew Rudolf Hess to Great Britain...
Other U.S. airmen joined the outfit, and the South Koreans soon learned to fly their Mustangs. Hess found them keen, aggressive, but too tense. He relaxed them by various pranks in the air, such as dangling a lazy leg out of his cockpit and staging mock pistol duels with his wingman. Meanwhile, he was out daily in assaults on the enemy for the U.S. 25th Infantry Division which called him a "one-man air force" and gave him the Army's Silver Star...
Last week Lieut. Colonel Hess (220 missions in the Korean war) and his outfit were honored by President Syngman Rhee and General Kim Chung Yul, commander of the South Korean air force. Rhee gave them a presidential unit citation, and Hess was personally awarded an ox-traditional Korean prize for champion archers and fencers. The prize drew amiable jeers from Hess's compatriots. "Hey, colonel," yelled a tousle-headed pilot from Illinois, "all you need now is half an acre of land and you can settle down here for life...
...Hess grinned, gave the ox to a Korean farmer, and sent off the day's second combat mission - four F-51s two flown by South Koreans, two by Americans...