"America's #1 Ace" Dies

Joe Foss died the other day. Foss led a Marine air unit known as Joe's Flying Circus that shot down 72 Japanese planes. He downed 26 planes himself, tying the U.S. aerial record Eddie Rickenbacker set in World War I. An Air Force colonel in the Korean War, president of the National Rifle Association, governor of South Dakota, and president of the American Football League, it was as a Marine aviator and Medal of Honor winner that he made the cover of Life magazine. God rest his soul.