1970 Press Photo Eddie Rickenbacker celebrates 80th birthday in New York
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Capt. Eddie V. Rickenbacker, a veteran of more than a half-century in aviation, celebrates his 80th birthday Thursday, claiming he has cheated death seven times. The highly decorated World War I flying ace, shown here in his New York office with a model of a WWI Spad fighter plane, says some of his brushes with death have been painful but he adds: "I have no regrets."
