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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:10 am 
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I'm trying to find info on Donald Rodewald but there's not much on the web and the WIX search machine returns

"No posts were found because the word rodewald is not contained in any post."

He was with the AVG and later had an accident, becoming the first weelchair pilot to do a circumnavigation flight. I'm specially interested in this late achievement, he belonged to the "California Weelchair Aviators". Can someone add some input? He does look like someone you would want to meet.

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I knew Don and even went for a ride in his Commanche!

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rreis wrote:
hi all

I'm trying to find info on Donald Rodewald but there's not much on the web and the WIX search machine returns

"No posts were found because the word rodewald is not contained in any post."

He was with the AVG and later had an accident, becoming the first weelchair pilot to do a circumnavigation flight. I'm specially interested in this late achievement, he belonged to the "California Weelchair Aviators". Can someone add some input? He does look like someone you would want to meet.

cheers!



First, it would seem your chances of meeting him would be slim, as it appears Rodewald passed away sometime in 2002. See entry for September 16, 2002 here:

http://www.earthrounders.com/cgi/old2002.php


A quick search also turned up a co-authored autobiography entitled, Tiger Tenacity: Courage and Determination Forged the Don Rodewald Story. Published in 2000 by Golden Stone Press. Scroll way down here:

http://museum.dva.state.wi.us/Res_WWII2.asp


Hope this helps.

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Time to buy? :wink:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Tiger- ... 1928590057

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