Early 1940s: During World War II, Fender meets Clayton Orr “Doc” Kauman, a musician and the chief designer of electric guitars for Rickenbacker (based in Santa Ana and the first maker of ...

Arguably, the last such man is James McCubbin, a North American P-51D Mustang pilot of the Eighth Air Force who is currently under consideration — at 103 years old. John Galvin became an ace ...