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The basic biography:

Adapted from Who's Who in America, 2006:

FORD, DANIEL. Writer. Son of Patrick and Anne Ford. Married; one daughter. Education: B.A. (political science) University of New Hampshire; graduate study (modern European history) University of Manchester, England; graduate study (War in the Modern World) King's College, London. Military service: U.S. Army, 1956-57.

Career: reporter, Overseas Weekly, Frankfurt, Germany, 1958; free-lance writer based in Durham, N.H., 1959 to present; correspondent, The Nation, South Vietnam, 1964; contributing editor, Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine, 1994 to present; publisher of The Warbird's Forum, 1997 to present; contributor to the Wall Street Journal, 2001 to present. Honors: Fulbright Fellow, 1954-55; Stern Foundation Magazine Writers Grant, 1964; Verville Fellow, National Air & Space Museum, 1989-90; award of excellence, Aviation-Space Writers Association, 1992; resident scholar, University of New Hampshire, 1996 to present. Member: Phi Beta Kappa, Aircraft Owners & Pilots Assoc., Cub Club, Metropolitan Opera Guild.

Author: Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942, revised and updated 2007; Michael's War (a story of the Irish Republican Army), 2003; The Only War We've Got: Early Days in South Vietnam, 2001; Remains (a story of the Flying Tigers), 2000; Glen Edwards: The Diary of a Bomber Pilot, 1998; The Country Northward: A Hiker's Journal, 1976; The High Country Illuminator, 1971; Incident at Muc Wa, 1967 (translated in Dutch; filmed as Go Tell the Spartans, 1976); Now Comes Theodora, 1965. Editor: The Lady and the Tigers: Remembering the Flying Tigers of World War II, 2002.

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