“I think he flew up to salute us,” Blackie said. “To say, ‘I gave you my best and you survived.’” “What do you think, Doc?” Charlie asked. “Pretty damn brazen,” Doc said. “Shades of Eddie Rickenbacker.” Doc was referring to Rickenbacker, America’s top WWI ace and most chivalrous pilot. The legend went that Rickenbacker was so overjoyed when WWI ended that he flew over the trenches to watch the soldiers from both sides meet in no-man’s-land to celebrate their survival.
