Brig. Gen. Bud Anderson, who single-handedly shot down 16 German planes over Europe in World War II and became America’s last living triple ace, a fighter pilot with 15 or more “kills,” died ...

Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson died in his sleep at his home in Auburn, California, on May 17, 2024, just a little over a year after the Air Force bestowed him with a post-retirement promotion to ...

The passing on May 17, 2024, of 102-year-old WWII triple ace, test pilot, and Vietnam combat veteran, retired Air Force Brigadier General Clarence "Bud" Anderson, reverberated across the world of ...

World War II fighter pilot Bud Anderson stands alongside a P-51C Mustang, Princess Elizabeth, at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, in Cambridgeshire. Chris Radburn/PA Images via Getty Images ...

Credit: Chris Radburn/PA Images via Getty Images. Second World War fighter pilot Bud Anderson, stands alongside a P-51C Mustang, Princess Elizabeth, at the Imperial War Museum Duxford.

One of the last masters of the air has died. Brig. Gen. Clarence Emil “Bud” Anderson, credited with downing 16 enemy planes over Europe in World War II, died this past week at his home in ...

Credit: Chris Radburn/PA Images via Getty Images. Second World War fighter pilot Bud Anderson, stands alongside a P-51C Mustang, Princess Elizabeth, at the Imperial War Museum Duxford.

Clarence “Bud” Anderson, the last surviving triple ace pilot from World War II, died May 17. He was 102. The pilot shot down 16 planes by himself and assisted on another kill during World War II.

Bud Anderson, last triple ace pilot of World War II, dies at 102. He personally shot down 16 German planes in dogfights over occupied Europe and continued his aerial derring-do after the war as a ...