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but did not mention that the book was actually the diary of Grider. Grider's sister, Josephine Grider Jacobs sued
Springs, claiming the book was her brother's writing and was given a $ 12,500 settlement. Springs returned the diary. However, there was a second diary that was found in Spring's private
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Grider kept a diary of his experiences during the war. In it he wrote of the lives, details of rigorous training and the deaths of some the pilots either during training in
England or in combat. His training and combat experiences were no different than that of his fellow pilots, however, he is set
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was planning to adapt the diary of Grider and asked
Faulkner to write the screenplay. This was his second full-length film script. It was never published until 1982 when Bruce Kawin published it along with other screenplays of Faulkner during his first period at MGM. The story of a young aviator,
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year later in May 1918. The air service became the newest branch of the U.S. army and had few pilots that were trained to endure combat. An aviation bill was passed in July 1917 for $ 640 million however it would take time to build airfields and planes.
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named John McGavock Grider as one of his top one hundred heroes of the war. His diary is one of the first published accounts of a pilot in the beginning of
American aviation. He was amongst several U.S. volunteers that served in the
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apart by the records he kept between 1917 and 1918. In a few entries, he writes about his psychological state of mind and we see an early glimpse of signs of what is known today as
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papers after he died which was never returned. This diary was written between
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it is a permanent book and a real and immortal part of our war with
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