Richard Hillary

Pilot + Military Person + Aviator

Male

Born Apr 20, 1919

Died Jan 8, 1943

Death Place Berwickshire

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Merle Oberon
Dated

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Books Of The Times; A Husband Tells His Wife's Other Love Story
NYTimes - May 20, 1989

LEAD: Mary and Richard A True Story of Love and War By Michael Burn 249 pages. Arbor House/William Morrow. $18.95. Mary and Richard A True Story of Love and War By Michael Burn 249 pages. Arbor House/William Morrow. $18.95. There are echoes of Robert E. Sherwood's ''Waterloo Bridge'' in Michael Burn's ''Mary and Richard,'' an unusual reminiscence
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In The Whirl And Muddle Of War
NYTimes - Jul 31, 1988

LEAD: Sometime in the late 1920's, Horace Pippin, a black American veteran of World War I, began to write his memories of his war. It must have been difficult: Pippin was not a writer and was not very well educated. Even the physical act of writing was hard for him, for his right hand and arm had been crippled by a sniper's bullet and he could
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Junior Birdmen Grow Up
NYTimes - Apr 24, 1988

LEAD: FLIGHTS OF PASSAGE Reflections of a World War II Aviator. By Samuel Hynes. 270 pp. Annapolis, Md.: Frederic C. Beil/The Naval Institute Press. $16.95. FLIGHTS OF PASSAGE Reflections of a World War II Aviator. By Samuel Hynes. 270 pp. Annapolis, Md.: Frederic C. Beil/The Naval Institute Press. $16.95. SEVERAL years ago, The Columbus Dispatch
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New &Amp; Noteworthy
NYTimes - Jul 22, 1984

THE EMPEROR OF THE AMAZON, by Marcio Souza. (Avon/Bard, $2.95.) The Brazilian writer Marcio Souza published his first and acclaimed novel, ''The Emperor of the Amazon,'' in 1977. It is written as the memoirs of Luiz Galvez, an inconsequential journalist of 1899, who becomes involved with a Bolivian diplomat, an English scientist, an American agent,
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1919 Birth Born on April 20, 1919.

TEENAGE

1938 19 Years Old He rowed in the successful Trinity College VIII of 1938.

TWENTIES

1939 20 Years Old 1 More Event

He joined the Oxford University Air Squadron and RAFVR in 1939.

1940 21 Years Old On 3 September 1940 he had just made his fifth "kill" when he was shot down by a Messerschmitt Bf 109 flown by Hauptmann Helmut Bode of II./JG 26 … Read More

1941 22 Years Old Hillary's love affair with Mary Booker which lasted from December 1941 until his death was the subject of Michael Burn's book Richard & Mary (1988) … Read More

1943 24 Years Old 1 More Event

The funeral service of Richard Hope Hillary took place at St Martin-in-the-Fields on January 25, 1943 at 12:30pm and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, where he is commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cremation memorial. … Read More

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