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Archive Home > 2007 > August > 21 > Family of Air Force pilot gets final peace

Family of Air Force pilot gets final peace

By Jessie Milligan / The Bulletin
August 21, 2007

In a blur of seconds, the Air Force pilot wrestled with the failing controls of the military jet as he struggled with the fast-approaching future.

Below him lay a rural French village. The split-second choices that Capt. Jim Walker made that day in 1960 would resonate through the decades.

For 47....

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