Elliott White Springs following a crash
One of the top American flying aces of World War I was a South Carolina cotton mill owner’s son named Elliott White Springs. His biographer, Burke Davis, described him as “one of the most fearless of combat pilots—and the most accomplished bartender in uniform.” Born in Lancaster, South Carlina in 1896, Springs was…
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