This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
God Is My Co-Pilot and the Road to West Point
The narrative follows a young man named Robert Scott who builds a glider from tent canvas, crashes but survives in a Cherokee rose bush, earns a Boy Scout aviation badge, buys his first plane for 75 dollars, and pursues a West Point path. He serves in the Regular Army, endures elite academy testing, crafts a fictitious battle Monograph, travels widely in Europe after graduation, dodges danger in Constantinople, runs into leave pay troubles in Bucharest, then returns to Randolph Field for Air Corps training in October 1932 under Lt. Ted Landon.
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Robert Scott
Macon
West Point
Ft. McPherson
Scott
Military Academy
Daddy
Air Corps
Academy
Bull Run
Manassas
West Coast
Stanford
California
Hudson
Garrison
Valmy
Napoleon
Reveille
Maloyaroslavetz
Sandepu
Atlantic
Chan-tan Honan
Europe
Cherbourg
France
Constantinople
Paris
Switzerland
Simplon Pass
Italy
Venice
Jugoslavia
Novo Mesto
New York
Turkey
American Express
Sofia
Istanbul
Pera
Galata
Scutari
Asia
Ankara
Hellespont
Varna
Bulgaria
Danube
Rustchuk
Bucharest
McColl
Randolph Field
Texas
Budapest
Linz
Bingen-on-the- Rhine
Bremen
Air Corps Training Center
Bachelor Officers Building
Ted Landon