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Arnold Griese
Arnold Griese was born on a farm in Iowa. His interest in flying came early when he first watched and listened to a DC-2 flying high overhead. Reading books and magazines having to...view moreArnold Griese was born on a farm in Iowa. His interest in flying came early when he first watched and listened to a DC-2 flying high overhead. Reading books and magazines having to do with flying and getting his first flight in an old Curtis pusher with an OX-5 engine made flying his main purpose in life.Pearl Harbor happened and he passed the written tests and became an aviation cadet. Then, failing his flight physical, he spent his four years in the service watching other people fly. After the war, with a wife and growing family, he earned his college degree, his private pilot’s license, and moved to the small village of Tanana, Alaska. There, with no roads, but a good airstrip, he bought a four-place plane that would hold the whole family. Flying now became the focus of his life.Later, when the University of Alaska hired him as a teacher, he used its library to combine practical knowledge of Alaska aviation with an in-depth study of its early history and the pilots who made that history. The flying exploits of Harold Gillam Sr. caught his immediate attention. Bush Pilot is both a labor of love and the fulfillment of a quest.view less