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  • Ex-Blue Angels leader Raleigh "Dusty" Rhodes dies in Calif. at 89; POW in WWII

    12/05/2007 4:28:23 PM PST · by STARWISE · 14 replies · 2,103+ views
    AZ Star ^ | 12-5-07
    Raleigh "Dusty" Rhodes, an early leader of the Blue Angels flight demonstration team who flew combat missions in two wars and was a prisoner of war, has died. He was 89. Rhodes died Nov. 26 of lung cancer in San Jose, his daughter Debra Rhodes said on Tuesday. The elder Rhodes flew fighters off of the USS Enterprise during World War II. In the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands near Guadalcanal in October 1942, he was shot down and captured by the Japanese. He spent the next three years in a prisoner camp, where he was beaten and starved, his...