To: U S Army EOD
Are you sure you're not writing about Bat Masterson who ended up as a New York Sports Writer?
Christopher Spencer of the famous carbine ended his career working on helicopters. At age 89, before his death in 1922 he was able to take flying lessons.
19 posted on
07/29/2003 7:20:37 PM PDT by
Shooter 2.5
(Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
To: Shooter 2.5
Spenser's son designed the Republic SeaBee just after WWII. He later redesigned it as a homebuilt seaplane Spenser Airphibian ?). I saw him talk at Oshkosh 20 or 25 years ago. He talked a bit about his father and the Civil War repeating rifle. Amazing.
To: Shooter 2.5
I suspect you are correct, one of those guys anyway. I do know for a fact Custer didn't do anything else.
22 posted on
07/29/2003 7:28:09 PM PDT by
U S Army EOD
(Served in Vietnam and Korea and still fighting America's enemies on the home front)
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