From MiGs to Marijuana: The Amazing Aerial Career of Pete Fernandez
Pete Fernandez was a working class kid from Miami who became one of the best combat flyers of his generation. He shot down 15 MiGs in Korea to become a triple jet ace. In 1956, he won air racing's Bendix Trophy. He died infamously in 1980 in the Bahamas Islands crash of a drug-laden plane. Since his death at age 55, rumors have persisted that he was actually working undercover to gather intelligence on dope smuggling. New information surfaced confirming this in 2004. Read the whole story here!
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