CAPTURED! – Aerial Combat Became Very Personal, Very Quickly

“The Horsemen” F-86 flight-demonstration team commemorates F-86 Sabre Jet pilots Maj. Edwin Heller (51st Fighter Wing), Maj. George Davis, and Capt. M. A. DeLaurell (4th Fighter Wing) over Nellis Air Force Base, in November 2012. (Photo by Brian Silcox)

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Harold Edward Fischer Jr. was born May 8, 1925, in Lone Rock, Iowa, and grew up in Swea City, Iowa. He joined the U.S. Navy in World War II and became an aviation cadet in 1944, but he was discharged from the service at the end of the war, before he could complete flight training. As soon as he had completed two years of college at Iowa State University, Fischer persuaded the U.S. Army to...

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