United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.387981940/1949Dickey joined the Army Air Corps in 1942. Although he spent thirteen months training to be a bomber pilot, he failed flight school and became a navigator instead. He joined the 418th Night Fighter Squadron in the Philippines in 1945, subsequently flying missions in Okinawa and Japan.Photograph of poet James Dickey wearing his Army Air Corps uniform. He sits on the lawn in front of a brick home. He smiles widely. Dickey joined the Army Air Corps in 1942. Dickey ranks, along with Conrad Aiken, as one of the two most important Georgia poets in the twentieth century.image/jpegJames Dickey papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/james-dickey-1923-1997Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/james-dickey-1923-1997Forms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaJames Dickey PapersAirmen--Georgia--AtlantaMen--Georgia--AtlantaDwellings--Georgia--AtlantaPoets, American--Georgia--AtlantaAuthors, American--Georgia--AtlantaNovelists, American--Georgia--AtlantaDickey, JamesJames Dickey, 1940sStillImage