Don Davis Flickinger (26 November 1907 – 23 February 1997) was a military flight surgeon and pioneer in aerospace medicine who retired from the United States Air Force as a brigadier general.

[2] As an expert in the physiology of high altitude flight, Flickinger accompanied a squadron of nine B-17 bombers from Hawaii to the Philippines in September 1941.

[4] After returning from the Philippines to Hawaii in November 1941, Flickinger was medical officer of the day for Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on 7 December 1941.

[2] During World War II, Flickinger became a pioneer in pararescue in the China Burma India Theater, parachuting into rough terrain to aid downed flyers and then helping them hike to safety.

[5] His most famous rescue mission was widely publicized by one of the survivors of the August 1943 crash of a C-46 transport in Burma, CBS radio correspondent Eric Sevareid.

[6] From November 1945 to December 1946, Flickinger was professor of air science and tactics at Harvard Medical School while also completing a graduate course in cardiology there.