WWII flying ace celebrates 95th birthday
Someone sent us a link to the story of Abner Aust in the Highland News-Sun who celebrated his 95th birthday in Frostproof, Florida which calls him the “the last World War II flying ace”;
Wearing a bright yellow flight suit he bought while flying combat tours in Vietnam, Aust talked briefly about how he shot down five enemy airplanes in the fading days of World War II in the Pacific.
As a young pilot, he flew a P-51 into combat from a base at Iwo Jima in August 1945, days after the atomic bombs were dropped, but Japanese flyers still took to the air to try and stop their county’s inevitable surrender.
Later, Aust says, he served in Korea as an air defense planner and later led a jet fighter wing in the Vietnam war, logging dozens of combat flights and earning a host more medals. All told, the former flyer says, he earned the Legion of merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross with three clusters, a Bronze Star, the Air Medal with 25 clusters and a number of Vietnamese medals. He also was submitted for the Silver Star for gallantry.
He invited the guests at his birthday back for his 100th birthday, too.
Abner Aust may be a flying ace (Wiki verifies it), but he’s no angel. In 2000, he went to jail for two years for paying someone to burn his ex-wife’s house down and while he was in prison, he was convicted of trying to find someone to kill his ex-wife. In 2012, he filed a phony $1 million lien against his ex-wife’s house. I guess those of you with ex-wives have those sorts of problems.
Spite might have something to do with his longevity.
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Feet of clay.
So you shot a lot of guys down – good.
Then you go all baboon anus on your wife – bad.
It’s much harder to be a day-in day-out good guy than to be a war hero. pffft
Maybe he could give his fellow Floridian flying lessons?
Burning the ex wife’s house down? They really send you to jail for that?
Yeah, they do. Most places take a rather dim view of arson.
It *is* kind of a dick move.
Guess you’ll have to take that one off the list.
Bet you’re glad you read this article!
I guess some people haven’t gotten the message about what happens when you fuck that one goat.
One “Aw shit” (or in this case 3?) wipes out a whole lot of atta boys.
That’s not a yellow flight suit. Its a Party Suit. I wish I could still fit in mine from the mid 80s.
Is it the same ex-wife?
Aust is not the last World War II flying ace. Chuck Yeager, for one, is still around.
The article is poorly written as hell. A quick Google search refers to him as the last pilot to become an ace during World War II, not the last World War II ace left alive.
WWII Flying Ace? Cool.
Tried to have his ex-wife killed? Not so much.
This probably won’t be very popular here in this veterans’ forum, but if it were up to me, I’d withhold all of the Flying Ace/95th birthday accolades based on all of the shit that he tried to pull on his ex-wife later in life. Acting like a complete bag of ass and trying to harm an ex-wife pretty much voids all of the previous ‘attaboys’ in my book.
Until he done real bad, he done real good. He went and let his steel balls rust. That’s a shame.
I wonder if he can sing “She Ain’t Got No YoYo” in Japanese.
Sounds like a rotten old bastard to me, at 79 years of age he tried to burn his ex’s house to the ground and then at 80 or 81 tried to have a hit man hired to kill her? Then the BS lien?
Apparently there was a fuckstick using that joystick in the cockpit….
Kind of reminds me of the quote often attributed to “Pappy” Boyington…”Show me a hero, and I’ll show you a bum.”
…. Sadly, Pappy knew what he was talking about.
had some issues of his own, too
“Spite might have something to do with his longevity.” – Hahahahahaha!!!
Yeah, she must have pissed him off but good! Kudos to her, and it’s nice to know that he had to cough up for it. I’ll bet he really is a spiteful old inglorious basterd big time.
Even so, Happy Birthday, you old fart!
Note to you guys: don’t be pissin’ me off. I know how to castrate pigs. ‘Nuf said. (Still laughing)
Which do you use, a knife or a band?
Two bricks, slammed together. Doesn’t hurt a bit.
Yes.
I’ve only done cows and goats (hate the smell of pigs) but find the bands are a lot less traumatic on the critter.
Hey, we’re not pigs!
OK, OK, maybe IDC SARC is.
ID SARC is more like a buck rabbit or a male goat, from his tales.
Now in real life he may be more like a monk, but I wouldn’t know.
IDC SARC is more like a male elephant in ‘must’. ALL females look good in that state.
Like they do at closing time at the bar, huh?
The ex pissed me off enough to where I said to myself, “Self? You know what you’re gonna do? Nothing. Cause she’s gonna fuck up all on her own, without any help from you.”
And damned if she didn’t. Maybe he should have just let it go.
Anyone run a FOIA (or any kinda backround) on this guy? Wiki don’t count. Readers: please don’t believe all ex-wives are———-(eom)
A great professional warfighter, a great and caring husband and father in law until the Pentagon and Korea turned him and his first marriage into turmoil and failure. Despite his personal flaws and life errors, I still admire his contributions to America and the USAF.