articles including a series for the Arkansas Gazette Magazine describing his voyage from St. Charles (Arkansas County) down the White and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans with his fox terrier. Tinker also wrote a series of serial articles for The Saturday Evening Post titled "Some Still Live". These articles detailing his war experiences, were published in book form with the same name in 1938. Ernest Hemingway was notably a fan, lauding it to Maxwell Perkins. Hemingway's influence on the style is rather evident. However, soon after the book was published, Tinker died, a purported suicide by a gunshot to his head in a Little Rock hotel. The reasons for his death are still controversial and may relate to the harsh treatment he received from the FBI, due to his support of the Spanish Republican cause. Tinker asked to return to the U.S. Navy or U.S. Army as a pilot but he was rejected. He even threatened to return to Spain to continue fighting. At the end, he was haunted by the thought he had betrayed his comrades and himself. His colleague Albert John Baumler, nicknamed "Ajax" (from his name acronym A.J.), proposed joining the American and other foreign pilots then flying for the Chinese Nationalist Air Force. His signed request was found next to his death bed with an empty bottle of whiskey. On his tombstone, the local priest engraved the phrase in Spanish: ¿Quién Sabe?, meaning "Who knows?" Arkansas Aviation Historical Society inducted Tinker into the Arkansas Aviation Hall of Fame in 1999. On July 11, 2009, near the centennial of his birth, relatives, admirers and the Grand Prairie Historical Society participated in an observance and toast at Tinker's gravesite in DeWitt, Arkansas. See also Yankee Squadron PTSD References Bibliography External links Biplane fighter aces - Jr Frank Glasgow Tinker Frank Tinker: The American Ace in Spain Flyers of Fortune: American Airmen in the Spanish Civil War 1909 births 1939 deaths 1939 suicides Suicides by firearm in Arkansas Spanish Civil War flying aces United States Navy officers American military personnel who committed suicide United States Naval Aviators Americans who served in foreign militaries People from Kaplan, Louisiana American people of the Spanish Civil War People from DeWitt, Arkansas