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Eddie Rickenbacker

Search complete. 9 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Eddie Rickenbacker".

Oct 14, 2026

Unknown podcast

Joe Foss, the Guadalcanal Wildcat Ace, and the Farm Kid Who Matched Rickenbacker's Record Over the Solomon Islands

Oct 14 · 3 Mentions

Tail DraggerHOST
7:04
The Japanese kept coming down from Rabaul, and Foss and the men of VMF 121 kept climbing up to meet them.
Tail DraggerHOST
7:10
By November of 1942, he had 23 confirmed aerial victories, three short of Eddie Rickenbacker's record from the First World War.
Tail DraggerHOST
7:18
Now, Rickenbacker's record was 26.
Tail DraggerHOST
7:21
The captain, they called him.
Tail DraggerHOST
7:23
America's ace of aces from 1918, 26 kills against the German Air Force over the Western Front, a record that had stood for 24 years as the benchmark of American military aviation.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:50
He got on another transport, got back to Guadalcanal, and climbed back into a Wildcat.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:54
On January 15th of 1943, he got his 24th and 25th on January 16th, number 26.
Tail DraggerHOST
9:01
He had tied Eddie Rickenbacker's record, 24 years it had stood, the top score in American military aviation history, matched by a farm kid from South Dakota in a Wildcat over the Solomon Islands.
Shall Not Be Infringed w/ Aaron Tarlow

Shall Not Be Infringed w/ Aaron Tarlow

Shall Not Be Infringed w/ Aaron Tarlow [Ep 60]

Oct 5 · 3 Mentions

Tom HoffGUEST
8:34
And I'm like, no, you need to look at people who are doing doctrine.
Tom HoffGUEST
8:37
And you need to look at like, you know, it's not Rickenbacker, it's Mitchell.
Tom HoffGUEST
8:41
That's who you need to be looking at.
Tom HoffGUEST
8:43
And of course, when the television show came out, for all its various merits, it was Rickenbacker, Rickenbacker.
Aaron TarlowHOST
8:50
Where can people see that documentary? It
Tom HoffGUEST
8:51
was The Great War.
Aaron TarlowHOST
9:09
We can get in there.
Aaron TarlowHOST
9:10
Talking

Unknown podcast

Frank Luke, the Arizona Balloon Buster, and the Eighteen Days That Made America's Most Ferocious Pilot and Ended Him at Twenty-One

Oct 4 · 2 Mentions

Tail DraggerHOST
8:56
By any accounting, Frank Luke was America's second highest scoring ace in the First World War.
Tail DraggerHOST
9:00
He was behind Eddie Rickenbacker in total kills, but Luke achieved his eighteen confirmed victories in eighteen days of actual combat flying.
Tail DraggerHOST
9:08
Rickenbacker, who was a consummate professional and whose record was built over a longer period and with extraordinary skill, said of Luke that he was the most daring aviator and one of the most skilled fighters in the entire war.
Tail DraggerHOST
9:18
What makes Luke's story complicated, and why I think it deserves more attention than it gets, is that he defies every category we try to put around heroism.
Tail DraggerHOST
9:28
He wasn't disciplined.
Engines of Our Ingenuity

Engines of Our Ingenuity

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3411: Roland Garros

Sep 28 · 1 Mention

John LienhardHOST
0:26
The University of Houston presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created them.
John LienhardHOST
0:44
World War I produced so many heroic pilots, names like von Richthofen, Rickenbacker, Bishop, but here's one you're less likely to know, a French pilot, Roland Garros.
John LienhardHOST
0:56
He died at age 29, just a month before the armistice, and having shot down only four airplanes, we cannot even call him an ace.
John LienhardHOST
1:05
But that's just the tip of an iceberg.

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