"Big John" wrote in message
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Robert L Scott who wrote "God is my co-pilot" was the Base Commander
where I was stationed.

One night at the club a drunken Ace from WWII cornered him and gave
him a hard time about writing the book and what it contained.

Scott's reply was:

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"I can sit down right now and write a check for $100,000, can you?"

End of quote and end of discussion.

Big John

Tell you how GIMCP was written BJ. Bob was approached by Charlie Scribner.
Scribner told Bob he had a great story to tell and handed Scotty a bunch of
those cylinder things for the talking machines and locked Bob in a room at
the Waldorf in New York. Bob wrote the whole damn story in one weekend
locked in that room! Then Jack Warner got in on it and the rest is history.
A funny aside to all this is that Warner Bros hired Richard Loo, the great
Asian actor to do the Tokyo Joe "ace" part in the picture and Bob has spent
the rest of his life on the lecture circuit telling people that he didn't
ACTUALLY shoot down Tokyo Joe!! :-))
Dudley