Joseph Jacob "Joe" Foss, born in April of 1915, and died in January of 2003, was apart of the United States Marine Corps. Major and the leading Marine fighter ace in World War II. Joe received the Medal of Honor in recognition of his role in air combat during the Guadalcanal Campaign. In the postwar years, he was an Air National Guard brigadier general, the 20th governor of South Dakota, president of the National Rifle Association, the first commissioner of the American Football League, and a television broadcaster. In the early years of Foss’s life he was raised on a farmhouse near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the oldest son to Mary Esther and Frank Ole Foss. After watching a Marine Corps aerial team, led by Capt. Clayton Jerome, perform
