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Eddie Rickenbacker

Eddie Rickenbacker

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Oct 20, 2026

Unknown podcast

Eddie Rickenbacker, the Hat-in-the-Ring Squadron, and the Race Driver Who Became America's Ace of Aces

Oct 20 · 4 Mentions

Tail DraggerHOST
1:47
Reckless means you have not thought past this moment.
Tail DraggerHOST
1:49
Eddie Rickenbacker was never reckless a day in his life.
Tail DraggerHOST
1:53
He was racing automobiles by his early 20s and competing professionally not long after that.
Tail DraggerHOST
1:59
By 1916, he was on the starting grid at Indianapolis.

8 MINS LATER

Tail DraggerHOST
9:35
On the eighth day, Sergeant Alex Kachmarchik died.
Tail DraggerHOST
9:38
The others lowered him over the side.
Tail DraggerHOST
9:40
On about the ninth day, a seagull landed on Eddie Rickenbacker's hat.
Tail DraggerHOST
9:45
I want you to hold that image.
The Pan Am Podcast

The Pan Am Podcast

Episode 69: 90 Miles and Minutes to Spare

Oct 20 · 1 Mention

Bob GandtGUEST
26:10
And if so, the airline business would have evolved in a different direction.
Bob GandtGUEST
26:15
It'd be driven by some other aggressive entrepreneurs, guys like Howard Hughes and C.R. Smith and Eddie Rickenbacker.
Bob GandtGUEST
26:22
And they'd have built something successful, but very different.
Bob GandtGUEST
26:26
Because without Pan Am and his vision and his great flying boats, America would have been way behind in international air travel.

Unknown podcast

Major Richard Bong, the P-38 Lightning Over New Guinea, and the Wisconsin Farm Kid Who Became America's Ace of Aces

Oct 16 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
7:12
By that point, Bong had already gone home.
Tail DraggerHOST
7:14
In the fall of nineteen forty-four, with the Philippines campaign opening and the end of the war beginning to feel like a distant possibility rather than a fantasy, Bong was closing in on a record that had stood since the First World War: Eddie Rickenbacker.
Tail DraggerHOST
7:27
Twenty-six aerial victories over the skies of France, that number had been the American benchmark for twenty-six years.
Tail DraggerHOST
7:34
Bong passed it in late nineteen forty-four.

Unknown podcast

Frank Luke Jr., the Arizona Balloon Buster, and the Seventeen Days That Made Him America's Most Lethal Fighter Pilot of the First World War

Oct 15 · 2 Mentions

Tail DraggerHOST
6:53
The story they told was of a man who would not quit, who was alone and outnumbered and wounded and kept fighting until he could not.
Tail DraggerHOST
7:00
Frank Luke Jr. was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, and Eddie Rickenbacker, when he learned the full account, said what he had already believed before, that Luke was the greatest fighter of the war, not of the American squadrons, of the entire war.
Tail DraggerHOST
7:12
He never made it to twenty-two.
Tail DraggerHOST
7:14
Here is what stays with me about Frank Luke.
Tail DraggerHOST
7:54
Eighteen kills, seventeen days, twenty-one years old.
Tail DraggerHOST
7:58
The rest is a note dropped from a cockpit, three fires along the Meuse, and a field in France that most people have never heard of.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:05
Sources today come from the original Medal of Honor citation, Eddie Rickenbacker's memoir, Fighting the Flying Circus, and the firsthand witness accounts gathered from the villagers of Merveux by Army investigators after the armistice.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:17
Find us at radiohangar.com. I'm Taildragger.

Unknown podcast

The Vought F4U Corsair, the Bent-Wing Bird the Navy Gave to the Marines, and the Fighter That Owned the Sky Over Guadalcanal

Oct 14 · 2 Mentions

Tail DraggerHOST
5:57
He had a drinking problem the Marine Corps officially didn't know about, a divorce, a stint flying with Claire Chennault's American Volunteer Group in China, and a mouth that had gotten him grounded more than once.
Tail DraggerHOST
6:07
He also had a growing kill count between his six Flying Tiger victories and the ones piling up with the Marines, and he was chasing the all-time American ace record of twenty-six confirmed kills set by Eddie Rickenbacker in the First World War.
Tail DraggerHOST
6:20
VMF-214 was assembled partly from pilots shuffled around the theater, orphaned from other units, some of them fresh from training.
Tail DraggerHOST
6:28
Boyington called the squadron the Black Sheep.
Tail DraggerHOST
6:51
He would broadcast on Japanese radio frequencies during sweeps, taunting them, daring them to come up and fight.
Tail DraggerHOST
6:57
They came up.
Tail DraggerHOST
6:58
On January 3rd, 1944, over Rabaul, Boyington shot down his twenty-sixth confirmed kill, tying Rickenbacker's record.
Tail DraggerHOST
7:05
What happened next is disputed.

Unknown podcast

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

Oct 14 · 2 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
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.
Tail DraggerHOST
9:11
He did not fly in combat again.
Audio Antiques

Audio Antiques

8 Decades of Radio News

Oct 13 · 1 Mention

Fulton Lewis Jr.SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
38:28
And frankly, the testimony of those experts who appeared today was not too favorable.
Fulton Lewis Jr.SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
38:33
One of the experts was the famous Eddie Rickenbacker, America's number one ace from the last war and now head of Eastern Airlines.
Fulton Lewis Jr.SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
38:40
He knows a good deal about cargo planes and what they have to be.
Fulton Lewis Jr.SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
38:44
He's been in the business of cargo passenger transportation for a long, long time.
America Tonight with Kate Delaney

America Tonight with Kate Delaney

ATN 10-12-26 Hour 2 | Hurricane Isaias Updates, Pope Leo Having Surgery, Middle East Chaos

Oct 12 · 1 Mention

Dan KluszynGUEST
29:02
Uh, well, like one of my favorite radio programs growing up was Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story.
Dan KluszynGUEST
29:10
So Life Answers Back includes fascinating stories about a lot of famous people, including, uh, Abraham Lincoln, John Kennedy, Eddie Rickenbacker, Paul "Bear" Bryant, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Billy Casper, Mark Twain, and J.K. Rowling.
Dan KluszynGUEST
29:29
Readers tell me they love the stories that motivate, inspire, or leave them laughing, so the kind of stories that are, beg to be shared with others.
Kate DelaneyHOST
29:39
Yeah, and there's no doubt, I mean, there's no doubt you get all of that.

Unknown podcast

The Cactus Air Force, the Battleship Bombardment of Henderson Field on October Thirteen Nineteen Forty-Two, and the Nine Pilots Who Flew at Dawn

Oct 12 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
10:23
Twenty-six.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:24
That tied Eddie Rickenbacker's record from the First World War.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:28
The record that had stood for twenty-five years.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:30
Foss was shot down over the water once and rescued by a coast watcher.
Kate Delaney Radio w/Extra Sauce

Kate Delaney Radio w/Extra Sauce

ATN Extra Sauce 10-12-26 | Hurricane Isaias Updates, Pope Leo Having Surgery, Middle East Chaos

Oct 12 · 1 Mention

Dan KlusmanGUEST
16:03
No, it's got a big mixture, uh, Like one of my favorite radio programs growing up was Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story.
Dan KlusmanGUEST
16:13
So Life Answers Back includes fascinating stories about a lot of famous people, including Abraham Lincoln, John Kennedy, Eddie Rickenbacker, Paul Bear Bryant, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Billy Casper, Mark Twain, and J.K. Rowling.
Dan KlusmanGUEST
16:32
Readers tell me they love the stories that motivate inspire or leave them laughing.
Dan KlusmanGUEST
16:38
So the kind of stories that are begged to be shared with others.

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