Robert O. Harder
Robert O. Harder
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    • Kills from the Sky
    • Peeling Popple
    • Synchronizing My Pratt and Whitneys
    • My Turn In The Barrel
    • My Encounter with Immortality
  • Articles
    • First Crossing
      article by Dave Kindy Washington Post, May 21, 2022
    • The 11 Day War
      Aviation History magazine Nov 2012 issue
    • Near Disaster over Nagasaki
      Aviation History magazine, Sept 2015 issue
    • Nixon's secret air war
      Aviation History magazine July 2017 issue
    • Billy Mitchel's "Aerial Blitzkrieg"
      Aviation History magazine September 2018 issue
    • Gremlins
      MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History magazine Autumn, 2019 issue
    • Eye in the Sky
      MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History magazine
      Winter, 2021 issue
    • Old Number One: E.L. Sloniger
      Aviation History magazine Sept 2021 issue
    • The Man Who Outwitted the Luftwaffe
      Historynet, April 2022
    • The Day Wiley Post Killed Will Rogers (And Himself)
      Aviation History Magazine, Spring 2023
  • Interviews
    • "EAA Timeless Voices"
    • Hangar One March 31st, 2016
    • Interview with the Smithsonian's "Air & Space Magazine"
    • May 3, 2017 Book Talk at Chicago's Pritzker Military Library
    • July 23, 2022 First Crossing Interview on the Sunbury Press Books Show.
    • May 8, 2023 First Crossing Interview Theodore Talks
    • Interview for “The Big Ask: Unlock the Possibilities in your Work, Life, and Dreams with Courageous Requests."
      published Spring, 2025.
  • Biography
    • Personal Biography
    • "Transocean Airlines"
    • Pocahontas/Colonial Heritage
  • Galleries
    • "Black Hole"
    • Musketeers
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My Encounter with Immortality

By Robert 0. Harder

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