DYESS One-Man Scourge

摘要

The remarkable life of Lt. Col. William Edwin Dyess ended in December 1943. Amazingly, some 13 years passed before the Air Force finally got around to naming a base after him. Dyess was a genuine World War II hero-a fighter pilot, infantry commander, unbreakable prisoner of war, guerrilla warrior. The New York Times called him "a one-man scourge" of Japanese forces in the PhiliDDines.