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Title: Genealogical Record
Author: compiled by Faye Whitmore Parkinson
Publication: undated
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Title: 1930 Census - Lake Placid, FL
Page: Dist. 9, Sheet 3A
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Title: Genealogical Record
Page: photocopies of newspaper articles
Author: compiled by Faye Whitmore Parkinson
Publication: undated
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Title: Oral History
Author: told by Faye Whitmore Parkinson
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Note: N19 He was encouraged as he flew over the Battle of the Bulge to drop supplies - he could see the relief troops coming in the distance. He wanted to know what it was like to parachute from a plane. So he talked a friend into taking him up. He looked around until he found a space with a lot of green grass to land in. He yelled "this is it" and jumped out. When he stood up he saw General Eisenhower and Winston Churchill looking at him. (They had been playing golf).
Was an Air Force Lt. Col. at the time of his death.,
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Note: died while on duty in a plane crash on Gray Mountain (body never recovered - but memorial stone in Arlington Cemetery). Orders were received that day (they wanted fighter plane manuevers tested that all test pilots had refused to do) and David was the duty officer. They sent the orders to David, knowing he would not refuse - even though the plane he had on base was much larger than a fighter plane. He would not let his men follow the orders alone, so he wrote a good-bye letter to his wife and went on the flight with them. His parents received a letter shortly after the accident from a general who told them that it never should have happened. That the orders were so wrong and the deaths so unnessary that he was going to leave the service in protest.
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