Airmen relive famous raid ; Air Force museum event draws 11 who flew on WWII mission.Barber, Barrie
Louis. For that platinum blond, blue-eyed Hollywood starlet had a set of gams that inspired American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines to set forth to save civilization from the Axis powers. And unlike Helen, Betty represented the flesh-and-blood “girl back home,” patiently keeping the...
It inspired American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines to keep up the fight against the Axis powers. 50,000 copies were requested every month during the war. She was painted on airplanes, posted on barrack walls and sat in the pockets of soldiers across the globe. Even Hugh Hefner ...
Wake was said to have had infectiously high spirits. As a courier for the Pat O'Leary escape network, she helped stranded Allied airmen evade Nazi capture. After landing on the Germans' radar
Anthony Kevin Dungy was born on October 6, 1955, in Jackson, Michigan, the son of Wilbur (a science professor and a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen) and Cleomae, who taught at the local high school. After graduation, Dungy played quarterback at the University of Minnesota. T...
Figure 3. Detail of Albert Salt’s patent drawings ‘Improvements in and relating to Goggles for Airmen, Motorists and Others’ (Pat 127545) lodged with the British Patents Office 11th Mar.1919. His simplified solid frame must have followed the appearance of Newbold’s split frame design almost...
He networked with fellow Harvard alumni in the industry to land meaty TV roles in high-minded cable movies such as "The Tuskegee Airmen" and "The Affair" (both HBO, 1995) and "Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad" (Family Channel/BET, 1994) and classy network specials like the ...
Soldiers, sailors, and airmen from the United Kingdom, from the British Commonwealth and the Empire, from the United States, and from many nations are found fighting side by side in many ocean and theatres of war. They know that they are engaged in a common service and are inspired by a...
In 1924, four Douglas World Cruiser biplanes and a crew of eight airmen from the U.S. Army Air Corps departed from Seattle to attempt the first flight tocircumnavigate the globe. The historic flight was made possible with the cooperation of 28 countries around the flight path supplying gasoli...
The roar of the powerful engines and the grace of the aircraft as they seemed to float in the air always held excitement and enchantment for the young daughter of Irish immigrants. That love of flying would lead the Air Force colonel to be honored as the first woman to command a space ...