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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book would not have been possible without the help of Jean Armstrong of the Wings over the Rockies Air and Space Museum. Jean is a relentless researcher and helped uncover some wonderful articles and sources that normally would never have been located and included in this book. This book would have been impossible without the help of my family, Cyndi, Victoria, and Alex. Even in the darkest of times they saw this story for what it was and tolerated the seemingly insane ups and downs of my writing career. My mother had a role in this, too, tracking down Fred’s grave marker so I could leave some ›owers. My thanks to the staff of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration , speci‹cally Mitch Yockelson, Richard Boylan, and Lawrence McDonald. Larry helped me tackle one of the hardest parts of the research for this book, combing the incredible records of the OSS. Katie McGuire of the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton , Ohio, assisted me with access to the ‹les of Frederick W. Zinn that his family graciously donated. These ‹les are a treasure trove for World War I researchers and until now have been mostly overlooked. Many other people assisted in this effort, including the following. Andy Parks and his staff at the Lafayette Foundation in Fort Lupton, Colorado Mary Anne Heider, Librarian, Salt Lake Public Library Jane Hylicke, New Jersey Librarian, Somerset County Library System Bob Tomalen, Vice Commander, 49th Fighter Squadron Association Kay Morrow, Library Director, McCreary County Public Library Mary Anne Hansen, Associate Professor and Reference Librarian, Montana State University Libraries Lieutenant Guyot, Société des amis du Musée de la Légion étrangère Patti Van Cleeve, Executive Director, Winnetka Historical Society Dorothy Szczepaniak, Reference Librarian, Winnetka-North‹eld Public Library District Betty Su, Reference Librarian, Champaign Public Library Eric Fair, Archives Librarian, Champaign County Historical Archives John Russell, Director, Pioneer Museum, Bozeman, Montana Lynn K. Lucas, Local History Library, Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie, New York 247 Tonya Boltz, Keokuk Public Library Bob Jensen, Commander, American Legion Post no. 42, the Lester Harter Post, Aurora, Nebraska Doug Patterson, Historian, 316th Fighter Squadron, http://home.comcast.net/~blueyonder316/316main.htm. Access date April 2007. Francis Acland, Associate Librarian, Frederick Madison Smith Library, Graceland University Lawrence C. Bowron, Airport Manager, W. K. Kellogg Regional Airport Charlie Green, Steubenville Historical Society Alan Renga, Assistant Archivist, San Diego Air and Space Museum Katherine Williams, Archivist, Dahlberg Center for Military Aviation History, Museum of Flight Cyndy L. Robertson, MLIS, Coordinator of Special Collections, University of Louisiana at Monroe Library Colonel Giancarlo Barbonetti, Cordialmente, il Capo Uf‹cio, Comando Generale dell’Arma dei Carabinieri Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Il Dirigente del Servizio, Dott.ssa Patrizia, Ferrara, Il Direttore, Dott.ssa Gerardi Maria Marino Marilyn Chang, Director, Wings over the Rockies Air and Space Museum Research Library Jon Guttman, noted military historian, author, and editor of Aviation History magazine. Other institutions that provided invaluable help include the following. Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Library of Michigan Willard Library, Battle Creek, Michigan Public Library, Galesburg, Michigan The incredible staff of the Library of Congress League of World War I Aviation Historians A special thank-you goes to my daughter, Victoria Pardoe, who assisted with the research for this book. I also want to acknowledge and thank Stephanie Gamache of the College of William and Mary for her translation of the Foreign Legion records that were so useful in this book. My thanks go to the Zinn family, Frank Zinn and Kris Lindsay. Fred’s surviving family was warm, gracious, and offered a great deal of support and many of the photographs that appear in this book. Finally, a somewhat sad thanks to Richard “Bud” Zinn. When I ‹rst reached out to him in retirement in Mississippi, he told me that he knew someone was going to write a book about his father one day. Then he told me he was dying of terminal cancer. Richard promised to give me whatever he could in his last six months and did so in letters and interviews. He helped me learn about Fred as a person. One day I called Richard and the phone had been disconnected. That is how I knew he had ‹nally rejoined his father. 248 | acknowledgments ...

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