Battle Hymn Author:Dean E. Hess, Colonel USAF A knight in a flying jacket, a bettle-hardened fighter pilot with an unquenchable conscience, a legendary leader of men . . . Dean E. Hess was all of these and more. A minister dedicated to peace and brotherly love, he left the placid life of a country pastor for the death and destruction of aerial warfare. — In combat he could often look into ... more »the faces of the enemy - before his guns spewed forth. Once, over Germany, he bombed an orphanage by mistake. On another occasion, through a tragic misunderstanding, he strafed a group of fleeing refugees in Korea. and yet Col. Hess fough on - unable to ask thers to fight and die unless he fought at their side . . .« less