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Archive Home > 2012 > March > 17 > ‘Wildman’ Morehead was World War II ace

‘Wildman’ Morehead was World War II ace

By T. Rees Shapiro / The Bulletin
March 17, 2012

James B. Morehead, a retired Air Force colonel and highly decorated World War II combat ace who earned the sobriquet “Wildman” for his brazen air attacks in the Pacific, and who later became a globe-trotting big-game hunter, died March 11 at a hospital in Petaluma, Calif. He was 95.

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