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From an early age Foss showed the adventuresome spirit that would mark his entire life. Then he started charging more timid neighbors fifty cents to climb their windmills to clean and grease them. In first grade Foss led his friends in a game of follow the leader in which they jumped from a bridge to a sandbar below. I banged my head on my knee and broke my collarbone.

But I was hooked on flight. When Colonel Charles A. Like many youngsters growing up on farms during the Depression, Foss was acquainted with firearms at an early age. He had a Daisy BB gun at the age of six and a Remington.

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The groundwork was laid for his later experience as an outdoorsman. The Foss family fortunes took a sharp turn for the worse in Frank Foss was killed when his car came in contact with a downed high-voltage electrical wire. Foss assumed extra household duties but still found time for other activities. He boxed as a middleweight pounds in a Golden Gloves tournament, played saxophone in dance bands, and worked odd jobs.

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From that time on Joe Foss flew at every opportunity. He did not distinguish himself academically and found himself at Sioux Falls College the next year. Improving in the classroom, Foss in matriculated at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, where a government flying course was offered.