Each Sunday, The Dispatch features a front page from this week in history to celebrate the newspaper's 150 years of publication, with a little update on what's happened since. WWI flying ace Capt.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eddie Rickenbacker didn't know whether he and 7 others would ever be rescued after their plane went down in the Pacific Ocean in ...

A self-made aviation pioneer, patriot, war hero, and captain of industry, he embodies the American spirit like few others before or since. By Justin Burgess Updated Nov 8, 2021 11:33 AM EST Add Task & ...

In “Enduring Courage” John F. Ross aims to revive the memory of World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, who was also an early race car driver of renown, and the creator of now-defunct Eastern Air ...

Historian Wukovits (Dogfight over Tokyo) delivers an immersive account of wartime disaster and survival. On Oct. 21, 1942, WWI fighter ace and airline executive Eddie Rickenbacker and seven others ...

Still others went much later, such as Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker of Columbus, America’s leading flying ace of the war, who died of pneumonia in 1973 in Switzerland. And finally, the last known survivor, ...