Daily Quiz for December 9, 2010

Eddie Rickenbacker. America’s top WWI ace volunteered to inspect military bases and deliver a coded message to Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific Theater in October 1942. The B-17 transporting him was forced to ditch near Japanese-controlled islands. Rickenbacker and the B-17’s crew were adrift in lifeboats for 24 days before being rescued by a Navy reconnaissance aircrew.