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Robert Lee Scott Jr. (12 April 1908 – 27 February 2006) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force and a flying ace of World War II, credited with shooting down 13 Japanese aircraft.
Aug 24, 2018 · Colonel Robert L. Scott Jr., fighter ace and bestselling author of God Is My Co-pilot, was in trouble…again. He had just offered to strafe John L. Lewis, the mine workers’ union boss who had continually violated the wartime “no strike” pledge after Pearl Harbor.
Feb 28, 2006 · Brig. Gen. Robert L. Scott Jr., one of America's most celebrated World War II fighter pilots and author of the best-selling wartime memoir "God Is My Co-Pilot," died yesterday at an assisted...
Robert Lee Scott was born in Macon, Ga., in 1908. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1932, completed pilot training at Kelly Field, Texas, in October 1933 and was assigned to Mitchel Field, N.Y.
Learn about the life and achievements of Robert Lee Scott Jr., one of the most famous pilots of World War II. He flew with the Flying Tigers in China, shot down many Japanese planes, and wrote a best-selling book and a movie.
Sep 23, 2016 · Colonel Robert L. Scott Jr. in his Curtiss P-40 Warhawk in 1943. Brigadier General Robert Lee Scott was a boy from Waynesboro, Georgia who went on to become a World War II hero. He was an American fighter pilot who flew over the Himalayas, one of the most dangerous routes possible at the time.
Military pilot and author. A retired general in the U.S. Air Force, Scott was a heroic World War II pilot and the author of God Is My Co-Pilot (1943). A 1932 West Point graduate, he was a pilot in Panama Canal Zone in the 1930s.
