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The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative, determination, courage, including the courage to run away. In course of time it appeared that men who had a private axe to grind beyond the public axe of the King's enemies were especially successful.

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James R. A. Bailey

James R. A. Bailey

Born: October 23, 1919
Died: February 29, 2000 (aged 80)
Bio: James Richard Abe Bailey, CBE, DFC, often known as Jim Bailey, was an Anglo-South African World War II fighter pilot, writer, poet and publisher. He was the founder of Drum, the most widely read magazine in Africa.
Known for:
  1. The End of Healing
  2. The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story (1964)
  3. The Razorbacks: A Story of Arkansas Football (1973)
  4. The god-kings & the Titans (1973)

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