Airman tells of grandfather's Flying Tiger days

Airman tells of grandfather's Flying Tiger days

(EXCERPT) by 2nd Lt. Ian Kallenbach 50th Space Wing Public Affairs

10/10/2003 - SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFPN) -- What do you do
when your grandfather was played by John Wayne in a movie, a general
at age 31 and a bona fide American war hero? If you are Maj. Reagan
Schaupp, you write a book about him.

Schaupp, of the 50th Space Support Squadron here, has spent the last
five years working with his 88-year-old grandfather, retired Brig.
Gen. David Lee "Tex" Hill, to make sure his grandfather's legacy is
not forgotten. From his birth to missionary parents in Kwangju, Korea,
in 1915, to his pilot heroics with the Flying Tigers, to his 60-year
marriage to Mazie Hill, Schaupp had more than enough material to work
with., by almost any standard, Hill is a true American hero. After
serving in a torpedo squadron on the USS Saratoga and a dive-bomber
squadron on the USS Ranger, h...

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