I've doing research on a family member who claimed to have been a pilot in the US Army Air Corps during World War II and Korea, but some details are not adding up. He was 6'6". I was under the impression that there was a maximum height requirement, but I'm not sure where to look for that information.
Some googling brings up some stories of men who were rejected for being too tall. One of them was much shorter than the man I'm researching.
A newspaper from 1945 claimed he flew a B-29 bomber. Did B-29 allow for taller pilots? Was there some way around the height regulation? Could he have gotten away with making something like that up 1945?
His enlistment information does show that he enlisted in the air corps.
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