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http://www.mysanantonio.com/specials/101207texhill/index.html
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA101107.EN.TexHillObit.15f328f9a.html
Retired Air National Guard Brig. Gen. David Lee “Tex'' Hill, a renowned leader of the Flying Tigers, a small volunteer force recruited to defend China in the early years of World War II, died Thursday afternoon at his home in Terrell Hills.
Hill, 92, died of congestive heart failure. His wife, Mazie, and his two surviving children, Shannon Schaupp and Loma Skinner, both of South Carolina, were at his bedside. Before he died, his wife told him, “You’re free to go.”
“Daddy made a safe landing at 5 o’clock,” said Shannon Schaupp, who is 58.
Services have not been set, but Hill will be buried next week at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.
“We’re going to miss him a lot, and he’s definitely in a better place now,” said U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Reagan Schaupp, Hill’s grandson. “He was a hero to us and certainly to a lot of people.”
Hill was “a giant figure in heroic aviation,” said T.R. Fehrenbach, author of “This Kind of War,” a history of the Korean conflict. “We don't have heroes in aviation anymore. We don't have people who fly by the seat of their pants in rickety airplanes. They go up in great machines that do much of the work.”
http://www.mysanantonio.com/specials/101207texhill/index.html
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA101107.EN.TexHillObit.15f328f9a.html
Retired Air National Guard Brig. Gen. David Lee “Tex'' Hill, a renowned leader of the Flying Tigers, a small volunteer force recruited to defend China in the early years of World War II, died Thursday afternoon at his home in Terrell Hills.
Hill, 92, died of congestive heart failure. His wife, Mazie, and his two surviving children, Shannon Schaupp and Loma Skinner, both of South Carolina, were at his bedside. Before he died, his wife told him, “You’re free to go.”
“Daddy made a safe landing at 5 o’clock,” said Shannon Schaupp, who is 58.
Services have not been set, but Hill will be buried next week at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.
“We’re going to miss him a lot, and he’s definitely in a better place now,” said U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Reagan Schaupp, Hill’s grandson. “He was a hero to us and certainly to a lot of people.”
Hill was “a giant figure in heroic aviation,” said T.R. Fehrenbach, author of “This Kind of War,” a history of the Korean conflict. “We don't have heroes in aviation anymore. We don't have people who fly by the seat of their pants in rickety airplanes. They go up in great machines that do much of the work.”
