The Wingmen, page 30
18 “a miracle” “‘Miracle’ If Ted Returns,” Washington Daily, January 10, 1952.
18 “If the Marines want me” Frank Eck, “Ted Williams Will Quit Baseball If Recalled by Marines,” Elizabethton (TN) Star, March 30, 1952.
18 “If I pass the examination” Larry Claflin, “Calls Swamp Office; Fans Sorry for Ted,” Boston American, April 2, 1952.
18 “Why don’t you write” Arthur Simpson, “Teddy Passes Physical, Says He’s All Through as Ball Player,” Boston Herald, April 3, 1952.
18 “I don’t know whether” “Ted Uncertain of Baseball Future on Eve of Departure for Marines,” Newport (RI) Daily News, April 30, 1952.
19 “I’m speaking for the guys” Jack McCarthy, “Auld Lang Syne Affects Happy, Trembling Teddy,” Boston Herald, May 1, 1952.
19 “I might let some kids play” “Ted Jokes About Ball Given by Writers,” Boston Globe, May 1, 1952.
19 “Some wagon!” Pres Hobson, “He Planned the Hat,” Patriot Ledger, May 1, 1952.
19 “It’s a day I’ll long remember” “Grand Farewell to Ted,” Cincinnati Enquirer, May 1, 1952.
19 “never acknowledge their” Jerry Nason, “Most Dramatic Man Any of Us Will See on a Baseball Field,” Boston Globe, May 1, 1952.
20 “that lanky body twisted around” Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns, “Inning 6: The National Pastime,” Ken Burns, PBS Home Video, 2004.
20 “Everyone in the stands” “Fan Gives Williams Home Run Ball,” Boston Globe, May 1, 1952.
20 “They can talk all” Mike Gillooly, “Ted Refuses to Say Career Ended,” Boston American, May 1, 1952.
20 “It seems that the fans” George C. Carens, “Ted Tops Day Playing Host,” Boston Traveler, May 1, 1952.
21 “Ted, try to get into jets” Henry Berry, Hey, Mac, Where Ya Been? (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988), p. 292.
22 “That made a lot of sense” Henry Berry, Hey, Mac, Where Ya Been? (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988), p. 292.
22 “At first they couldn’t find” Henry Berry, Hey, Mac, Where Ya Been? (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988), p. 293.
22 “mock assault” “Marines Plan Mock Assault,” Charlotte Observer, November 7, 1952.
23 “Flying right now is” Bob Quincy, “Williams Is a Worker, but He Doesn’t Study Flying All the Time,” Charlotte News, July 23, 1952.
23 “I didn’t want that” Bob Quincy, “Williams Is a Worker, But He Doesn’t Study Flying All the Time,” Charlotte News, July 23, 1952.
23 “He came to us inadequately” Arthur M. Moran, unpublished memoir, 1988.
23 “shoot landings” Bob Quincy, “He Takes Instruction Well, Say Those Who Watch Him in Action,” Charlotte News, July 21, 1952.
23 “navigational computor” “The Captain Was the Kid (Caption),” Charlotte News, July 22, 1952.
23 “Dilbert Dunker” Bud Johns, “Capt. Ted Says ‘Sox Have Stuff to Take It,’” Sporting News, July 16, 1952.
24 “Sure, it was rough” Bob Quincy, “Williams Is a Worker, but He Doesn’t Study Flying All the Time,” Charlotte News, July 23, 1952.
24 “I’m losing two very important” Whitey Martin, “Ted Williams Uncertain About Baseball Future,” Asheville Citizen Times, September 12, 1952.
24 “I can handle one” Bob Quincy, “Ted Williams Says Baseball Helps in Switch to Jet Pilot,” Boston Herald, July 29, 1952.
24 “Outstanding” . . . “Endurance” . . . “Cooperation” Official Fitness Reports, United States Marine Corps, Completed July 28, 1952, and August 31, 1952, Freedom of Information Act.
24 “a fine young officer” Official Fitness Report, United States Marine Corps, Completed July 28, 1952, Freedom of Information Act.
25 “compared with the First World War” Darrell Garwood, “Korean War Proving Costliest in United States History,” New Journal and Guide, December 6, 1952.
26 “I think I could play baseball” Jeane Hoffman, “Korea-Bound Ted Quit for Sure if Sox Trade Him,” Los Angeles Times, January 3, 1953.
26 “no one can throw a fastball” David Halberstam, Summer of ’49 (New York: First Perennial Classics, 2002), p. 191.
26 “I’d jettison my tanks” Bob Quincy, “He Takes Instruction Well, Say Those Who Watch Him in Action,” Charlotte News, July 21, 1952.
26 “sliding in” “Ted May Rejoin Sox in April (Caption),” Boston Globe, August 28, 1952.
26 “I really enjoy it” Whitey Martin, “Ted Williams Uncertain About Baseball Future,”Asheville Citizen Times, September 12, 1952.
000 “He said he was proud” Frank Graham, “Graham’s Corner,” New York Journal-American, March 26, 1953.
CHAPTER TWO: My Life’s Work
27 “You could hear ‘Bud’” “‘The John Glenn Story’: A Redhead Named Bud . . . ,” Zanesville (OH) Times Recorder, March 3, 1962.
27 “the most curious little” “Says Glenn ‘Curious,’” Mansfield (OH) News-Journal, March 1, 1962.
28 “Vultee Vibrator” “Restoring Derelict Plane,” Corpus Christi Caller Times, February 18, 1967.
28 “flying boat” NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries, “Rare Images Reveal Details of U.S. Navy Seaplane Lost in Pearl Harbor Attack,” Honolulu Star Advertiser, December 18, 2015.
29 “The Placid Plodder . . . ” Ev Hoskins, “Those Fabulous Gooney Birds,” Long Beach (CA) Independent, October 4, 1970.
29 “They had a very decided” “WWII—‘War Diary’ of Marshall Islands, January-February 1945,” courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 14, Folder 8, Location 01-8-26-09-04-0-1, p. 5.
29 “a small, fast ship that really gives” “WWII—‘War Diary’ of Marshall Islands, January-February 1945,” courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 14, Folder 8, Location 01-8-26-09-04-0-1, p. 5.
29 “unquestionably the best carrier” “U.S. Lags in Fighter Planes, OWI Says, But Our Bombers Are Best in Their Fields,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 19, 1942.
29 “Anytime John gets his sights” Frank Van Riper, Glenn: The Astronaut Who Would Be President (New York: Empire Books, 1983), p. 94.
29 “I’ve never been dressed down” John Glenn with Nick Taylor, John Glenn: A Memoir (New York: Random House, 2000), pp. 110–111
30 “Sniveling, among pilots” “The Nation,” Time, March 2, 1962, p. 16.
30 “It is one of the finest” “WWII—‘War Diary’ of Marshall Islands, January-February 1945,” courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 14, Folder 8, Location 01-8-26-09-04-0-1, p. 13–14.
31 “[I] fed the fishes twice” “WWII—‘War Diary’ of Marshall Islands, January-February 1945,” courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 14, Folder 8, Location 01-8-26-09-04-0-1, p. 21.
31 “On strafing runs we generally” Peter B. Germano, “Is Bombardier As Well as Pilot,” Zanesville (OH) Times Recorder, January 23, 1945.
32 “a rising young star” Tom Shriver, “Medalist Advances by Keeping Scores Close to Even Four,” Harrisburg Telegraph, July 19, 1941.
32 “Red 2, are you aboard” Frank Van Riper, Glenn: The Astronaut Who Would Be President (New York: Empire Books, 1983), p. 99.
32 “I don’t know if I’ve ever” Frank Van Riper, Glenn: The Astronaut Who Would Be President (New York: Empire Books, 1983), p. 99.
33 “a long, long flight” The John H. Glenn, Jr., Oral History Project, “Oral History Interview 5,” Brien R. Williams, January 16, 1997.
33 “John was always stable” Dr. Julian Craigmiles as told to Bill Knight, “The Man Inside the Space Suit,” Longview (TX) Daily News, January 6, 1962.
34 “I really got a kick out” The John H. Glenn, Jr., Oral History Project, “Oral History Interview 15,” Brien R. Williams, March 23, 1998.
34 “So it was a time when” The John H. Glenn, Jr., Oral History Project, “Oral History Interview 5,” Brien R. Williams, January 16, 1997.
35 “It was obvious that Glenn” Bill Eaton, “Bay Flier Recalls Glenn as Gay, Carefree Marine,” Oakland Tribune, March 7, 1962.
36 “I didn’t much want that” The John H. Glenn, Jr., Oral History Project, “Oral History Interview 11,” Brien R. Williams, May 12, 1997.
36 “another assignment I didn’t” John Glenn with Nick Taylor, John Glenn: A Memoir (New York: Random House, 2000), p. 193.
36 “It was the epitome of” “Korean War—Speech 133 class, Quantico, VA, July 1952,” courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 16, Folder 34, Location 01-8-26-11-07-0-1.
36 “The Korean war is two” William C. Barnard, “Korea’s Bitter ‘Twilight War’” Birmingham News, June 22, 1952.
37 “All the materials we had” The John H. Glenn, Jr., Oral History Project, “Oral History Interview 14,” Brien R. Williams, March 13, 1998.
37 “Here” . . . “I’m going to” American History TV: C-SPAN3, “Remembering John Glenn,” July 18, 2017, accessed February 1, 2022.
37 “We didn’t talk about how much” John Glenn with Nick Taylor, John Glenn: A Memoir (New York: Random House, 2000), p. 198.
CHAPTER THREE: The Blow and Go Group
38 “tactical aerial photographic” VMJ-1 Type “B” Report (Command Diary), 1 to 28 February 1953.
39 “Robertshaw impressed me so” Jim Prime and Bill Nowlin, Ted Williams: The Pursuit of Perfection(Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, LLC, 2002), Compact Disc insert, provided by Ted Patterson, Track 13.
39 “So I get into K-3” Richard Sisk, “The Right Stuff, 1998,” New York Daily News, October 11, 1998.
40 “sort of third in command” The John H. Glenn, Jr. Oral History Project, “Oral History Interview 10,” Brien R. Williams, April 28, 1997.
40 “All the fellows are really” Letter from John Glenn to Annie Glenn, February 27, 1953, courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 118, Folder 23, Location 01-8-30-15-02-0-1.
40 “Any guy who” Letter from John Glenn to Annie Glenn, February 27, 1953. Courtesy of The John H. Glenn Archives at The Ohio State University, Box 118, Folder 23, Location 01-8-30-15-02-0-1.
40 “Hate these weeks” Letter from John Glenn to Annie Glenn, May 17, 1953, courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 118, Folder 24, Location 01-8-30-15-02-0-1.
40 “the time of my life” Letter from John Glenn to Annie Glenn, March 9, 1953, courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 118, Folder 23, Location 01-8-30-15-02-0-1.
40 “I’m still praying for” “Williams Joins Marines, Prays for Korean Truce,” Boston Globe, May 3, 1952.
40 “Looks like I’ll beat the 15th” Letter written by Ted Williams to Evelyn Turner, February 10, 1953, LiveAuctioneers.com, accessed January 7, 2021.
41 “When Glenn joined the” Interview with Major General Larry Taylor, “Veterans Day Tribute: An Interview with Ted Williams USMC Reservist, Baseball Legend,” Officer, November 1999.
41 “I didn’t know what to expect” Joe Hallett, “Glenn Remains Sky-High on Friendship with Ted Williams,” Columbus Dispatch, July 14, 2002.
41 “He is the greatest guy” Arthur M. Moran unpublished memoir, 1988.
41 “When we were going” Dr. Julian Craigmiles as told to Bill Knight, “The Man Inside the Space Suit,” Longview (TX) Daily News, January 6, 1962.
42 “was just a nonentity” Frank Van Riper, Glenn: The Astronaut Who Would Be President (New York: Empire Books, 1983), p. 103.
42 “Let’s see now, Bush” Ted Williams as told to John M. Ross, “Where Do We Go from Here?” American Weekly, August 23, 1953.
42 “dodging all those pop-bottles” John Minturn Verdi, First Hundred: A Memoir of the Korean War, 1952−1953 (Airdale & Chrünschi LLC, 2013), p. 392.
42 “could get to first base” “Here’s What He Meant,” Korean War—VMF-311 Policy from new commanding officer, (including policy created as a joke), February 1, 1953, courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 16, Folder 45, Location 01-8-26-11-07-0-1.
42 “just good friends” Armand Archerd, “What’s Marilyn’s Success Secret,” Shreveport Times, January 4, 1953.
42 “Ted Williams is in outfit” Letter from John Glenn to Annie Glenn, February 15, 1953, courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 118, Folder 23, Location 01-8-30-15-02-0-1.
43 “Well, lieutenant colonels and” Bill Nowlin, Ted Williams at War (Burlington, Massachusetts: Rounder Books, 2007), p. 216.
43 “Pohang had a terrible” William Miser personal diary, October 31, 2000, courtesy of Dr. Fred Miser.
43 “He didn’t care for kimchi” Author interview with David Glenn, March 6, 2021.
44 “Nobody can fight in bitter” Captain Ralph C. Wood, “Pickel Meadows,” Marine Corps Gazette, October 1952.
44 “everybody went out on” Ted Williams with John Underwood, My Turn at Bat (New York: A Fireside Book Published by Simon & Schuster, 1988), p. 178.
44 “These huts are like” Letter written by Bill Clem to Marian Clem, February 8, 1953, courtesy of Barbara Clem Alvarez.
44 “Korea is the coldest hole” Author interview with Rylen B. Rudy, February 5, 2021
44 “The Army was the one that” Author interview with Rylen B. Rudy, December 21, 2021.
45 “[The Panther] wouldn’t go as” The John H. Glenn, Jr., Oral History Project, Oral History Interview 14, Brien R. Williams, March 13, 1998, p. 4.
46 “nape scrapes” Letter from John Glenn to Annie Glenn, April 27, 1953, courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 118, Folder 24, Location 01-8-30-15-02-0-1.
46 “Our job was to support” Henry Berry, Hey, Mac, Where Ya Been? (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988), p. 294.
46 “What the hell good that” Henry Berry, Hey, Mac, Where Ya Been? (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988), p. 294.
47 “cream puff hops” Letter from John Glenn to Annie Glenn, February 21, 1953, courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 118, Folder 23, Location 01-8-30-15-02-0-1.
47 “This is a really rough” Letter from John Glenn to Annie Glenn, February 21, 1953, courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 118, Folder 23, Location 01-8-30-15-02-0-1.
47 “Indian Country” . . . “The Boot” . . . “Marilyn Monroe” Letter from John Glenn to Annie Glenn, February 27, 1953, courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 118, Folder 23, Location 01-8-30-15-02-0-1.
48 “the guys” Letter written by Bill Clem to Marian Clem, February 5, 1953, courtesy of Barbara Clem Alvarez.
48 “nervous, but not too” Letter written by Bill Clem to Marian Clem, February 14, 1953, courtesy of Barbara Clem Alvarez.
48 “Boy I really had my” Letter written by Ted Williams to Evelyn Turner, February 14, 1953, LiveAuctioneers.com, accessed January 7, 2021.
49 “One-Four, turning base” “VMF-311 SOP for Tactical Flight Operations,” courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 16, Folder 47, Location 01-8-26-11-07-0-1.
49 “Luck was with me” Letter written by Bill Clem to Marian Clem, February 14, 1953, courtesy of Barbara Clem Alvarez.
49 “I’m real mad at myself” Letter written by Bill Clem to Marian Clem, February 14, 1953, courtesy of Barbara Clem Alvarez.
49 “There is a big strike planned” Letter written by Bill Clem to Marian Clem, February 14, 1953, courtesy of Barbara Clem Alvarez.
CHAPTER FOUR: Three Runs, Three Hits, Three Errors
50 “I have never seen” Letter from John Glenn to Annie Glenn, February 21, 1953, courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 118, Folder 23, Location 01-8-30-15-02-0-1.
50 “One week since my” Letter from John Glenn to Annie Glenn, February 21, 1953, courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 118, Folder 23, Location 01-8-30-15-02-0-1.
50 “Ingrid,” “Hedy,” and “Lara” Letter from John Glenn to Annie Glenn, February 16, 1953, courtesy of the John H. Glenn Archives at the Ohio State University, Box 118, Folder 23, Location 01-8-30-15-02-0-1.
50 “Hey, they got the Bush” Glenn Infield, “The Day Ted Williams Almost Got It,” in Fighting Eagles: The Daring Exploits of America’s Great Air Aces, edited by Phil Hirsch (New York: Pyramid Willow Books, 1965), pp. 29−30.
51 “Ted, I don’t care whether” Claire Trageser, “Military Aviator Survived Brushes with Death in World War II and Korea,” San Diego Daily Transcript, June 8, 2011.
51 “I can handle one” Bob Quincy, “Ted Williams Says Baseball Helps in Switch to Jet Pilot,” Boston Herald, July 29, 1952.
51 “I felt the plane mush up” Ed Hyde, “Ted Williams, Marine,” Sport, July 1953.
52 “John Glenn told me later” Interview with Major General Larry Taylor, “Veterans Day Tribute: An Interview with Ted Williams USMC Reservist, Baseball Legend,” Officer, November 1999.
52 “I’m Captain T.S. Williams” Henry Berry, Hey, Mac, Where Ya Been? (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988), p. 294.
52 “We actually had to physically” J. David Truby, “Ted Williams’ Almost Final Out,” Flight Journal, August 2006.
52 “Ted told me later the” Smithsonian via YouTube, “John Glenn: Earning the Right Stuff as a Decorated Marine Aviator and Navy Test Pilot,” May 25, 2012, accessed February 3, 2021.
53 “You listen and here comes” “Ted Williams: A Celebration of an American Hero,” July 22, 2002, courtesy of New England Sports Network.
53 “Would like to be a test” 1948 Pine Grove High School Yearbook, p. 17.
53 “If I had known then that” Ted Williams as told to Joe Reichler and Joe Trimble, “This Is My Last Year,” Saturday Evening Post, April 24, 1954.
54 “The minute he hit the” “ESPN SportsCentury: Ted Williams,” October 8, 1999.
55 “If I ever prayed in my” John Underwood, It’s Only Me: The Ted Williams We Hardly Knew (Chicago: Triumph Book, 2005), audio CD insert, track 3.
