Billy Fiske
William Meade Lindsley Billy Fiske III was the 1928 and 1932 Olympic champion bobsled driver and, following Jimmy Davies, was one of the first American pilots killed in action in World War II. At the time Fiske was serving in the Royal Air Force . He was one ofAmerican pilots who flew with RAF Fighter Command betweenJuly andOctober 1940, thereby qualifying for the Battle of Britain clasp to the 193945 campaign star.
Fiske was born in New York in 1911, the son of Beulah and William Fiske, a New England banking magnate. He attended school in Chicago, and then went to school in France in 1924, where he discovered the sport of bobsled at the age of 16. Fiske attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1928 where he studied Economics and History.
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