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William Meade Lindsley "Billy" Fiske III (4 June 1911 – 17 August 1940) was the 1928 and 1932 Olympic champion bobsled driver and, following Jimmy Davies, was one of the first American pilots killed in action in World War II.〔Lang 1989, p. 106.〕 At the time Fiske was serving in the Royal Air Force (RAF). He was one of 11 American pilots who flew with RAF Fighter Command between 10 July and 31 October 1940, thereby qualifying for the Battle of Britain clasp to the 1939–45 campaign star.〔("Battle of Britain - Roll of Honour." ) ''RAF.'' Retrieved: 6 January 2013.〕 Between his Olympic career and his military service, Fiske was instrumental in the early development of the Aspen ski resort. He and a partner built the first ski lift and lodge in the remote Colorado mountain town. Others would continue their work after the war. ==Early life== Fiske was born in New York in 1911, the son of Beulah and William Fiske, a New England banking magnate.〔 He attended school in Chicago, and then went to school in France in 1924, where he discovered the sport of bobsled at the age of 16. Fiske attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1928 where he studied Economics and History. In 1936 Ted Ryan, an heir of Thomas Fortune Ryan, brought some photographs of mountains near Aspen, Colorado, to Fiske. They had been given to Ryan by a man trying to interest him in investing in a mining claim. Fiske and Ryan, however, saw in them ideal terrain for downhill skiing, and the ski resort the pair had been talking about establishing in the United States, similar to those in the Alps where Fiske had competed in the Olympics.〔Lund, Morten and Mary Hayes. ("Skiing Comes to Aspen: Visionaries and Teachers." ) ''Skiing Heritage Journal,'' Issue 2, 1997, pp. 16–18.〕 Fiske and Ryan visited Aspen, then a faded mining town decades removed from its boomtown years in the 1880s. Many of the abandoned properties around town were available for very low prices. Fiske bought an option on one, and he and Ryan had blueprints drawn up for a ski lodge. For the next season, they hired guides, including Swiss ski champion André Roch, then studying at Reed College in Oregon. The lodge opened at the end of 1937, and a few weeks later the Boat Tow, an early ski lift, opened. These events are considered the beginning of skiing in Aspen.〔 Fiske then worked at the London office of Dillon, Reed & Co, the New York bankers. On 8 September 1938,〔("P/O. William M. L. Fiske III1." ) ''The Peerage'', 28 January 2009. Retrieved: 20 June 2010.〕 Fiske married Rose Bingham,〔("Rose (Bingham), Countess of Warwick." ) ''Collections''. Retrieved: 20 June 2010.〕 Countess of Warwick, in Maidenhead.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Billy Fiske」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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