1942: A shy south St. Louis fighter pilot gets a hero's welcome back home
Just when Americans needed something to smile about, along came shy, grinning Edward H. "Butch" O'Hare, south St. Louis boy and Navy flying ace
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Aviation pioneer to be inducted into Missouri National Guard Hall of Fame
The city of St. Louis experienced explosive growth in aviation following the end of World War I.
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Dec. 14, 1942: The night a World War II blackout drill darkened St. Louis
âA blackout at sea was never like this,â said John Sizemore, a sailor on leave, who celebrated the drill in a dimmed tavern on Washington Avenue. In the eerie darkness, sentries on the Spivey Building in East St. Louis saw the glow of locomotive fireboxes on the Eads Bridge. University City Mayor Matt Fogerty, on the roof of City Hall, spotted a lit cigarette three blocks away. Pilots reported seeing little but the interior lights of the sprawling ammunition factory on Goodfellow Boulevard, which had been exempted from the drill. There were isolated accidents and acts of malice. A w...
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