He taught himself to be a pilot. During World War II, he designed a machine used to train military aircraft crews to fire guns at enemy aircraft.

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She even has an Amelia Earhart-like snapshot of her aunt, a World War II pilot, posted on her bulletin board.

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Kerkorian, a World War II pilot, a boxer and an eighth grade dropout, hung out his shingle in Las Vegas in 1962 with a small land stake.

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Medals awarded to a World War II pilot who risked his life to drop the French Tricolour over the Arc de Triomphe in occupied Paris in 1942 are being auctioned.

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