{"id":3773,"date":"2018-12-08T11:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T17:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=3773"},"modified":"2018-12-09T07:33:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T13:33:47","slug":"robert-lee-scott-jr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/robert-lee-scott-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Lee Scott Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\r\n As a pre-adolescent boy, I can remember reading Robert Lee Scott’s book, “God is my Co-Pilot.” I was captivated by the adventure Scott described. I was surprised to read that my Uncle Tom had met Robert Lee Scott.<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>Excerpt from Wikipedia<\/a>:\"\"<\/a>Robert Lee Scott Jr.<\/b>\u00a0(12 April 1908 \u2013 27 February 2006) was a\u00a0brigadier general<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0United States Air Force<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0flying ace<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0World War II<\/a>, credited with shooting down 13 Japanese aircraft.<\/em><\/p>\n

Scott is best known for his memoir,\u00a0God is My Co-Pilot\u00a0(1943), about his exploits in World War II with the\u00a0Flying Tigers<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0United States Army Air Forces<\/a>\u00a0in China and Burma. The book was adapted as a film of the\u00a0same name<\/a>, which was released in 1945.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Excerpt from Wikipedia:Robert Lee Scott Jr.\u00a0(12 April 1908 \u2013 27 February 2006) was a\u00a0brigadier general\u00a0in the\u00a0United States Air Force\u00a0and a\u00a0flying ace\u00a0of\u00a0World War II, credited with shooting down 13 Japanese aircraft. Scott is best known for his memoir,\u00a0God is My Co-Pilot\u00a0(1943), about his exploits in World War II with the\u00a0Flying Tigers\u00a0and the\u00a0United States Army Air Forces\u00a0in … Continue reading Robert Lee Scott Jr.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":55,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3773","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3785,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3773\/revisions\/3785"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}