Continuing my informal look at Texas fighter aces that began with Mustang pilot Richard Candelaria. Wing Commander Wade is the leading American ace in any foreign air force, in his case, the Royal Air Force of World War II. He was born in 1915 in the East Texas hills around Broadus, on the Texas-Lousiana state line, and was a muleskinner as a youth at Reklaw, near Tyler. He didn’t have enough education for the U.S. Army, so he got a private license and eighty hours of experience and went to Canada to join the RAF. He flew Hurricanes and Spitfires and is credited with twenty-three confirmed solo kills of Axis aircraft. He died in a flying accident in 1944.
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Looks a perfect Brit from where I look. Anyway – 23 kills is – wow!
He does, doesn’t he? Must be the mustache. All his fighting was done in the North Africa campaign, so he may have gotten near you, way back when.