Day's actions from 26 August 1967 through 14 March 1973 were the last to earn the Medal of Honor prior to the end of U.S. involvement in the war on 30 April 1975, though some honorees (e.g. Leslie H. Sabo Jr., honored on 16 May 2012) were cited for their medals after Day's...
Among the medals bestowed upon him was a Distinguished Flying Cross for making a hazardous emergency landing of his badly damaged plane and saving his crew. At the end of the war and after completing his missions, he briefly continued with the 741st Bomb Squadron delivering surplus food and ...
That year, an African American man named Jesse Owens won four gold medals and struck a blow not only against racism in his own country, but against Hitler's ignorant insistence that his Aryan athletes were representatives of the so-called master race. 1937: HINDENBURG EXPLODES! Gus Pasquarella...
planes, engines of all sorts, ships, thumb-sized guns and knives, and much more. these are not the plastic model car kits from your childhood; for example, there’s an eye-popping version of a 1932 duesenberg sj that has more than 6,000 custom-made parts and is said...
BELOW IS A LIST OF AVIATION, AEROSPACE AND AIRCRAFT COMPANIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD. THIS LIST INCLUDES ALL KNOWN AVIATION COMPANIES. A AAC - AAC Amphibiam Airplanes of Canada AAMSA - Aeronautica Agricola Mexicana SA AASI - Advanced Aerodynamics and Structures Inc ...
In the world of sports, heroes are often defined by their medals. Challenging this notion isVinesh Phogat, the Indian wrestler whose relentless fight against systemic injustice on her journey to the Paris Olympics has encouraged us to reconsider who we identify as sporting icons. ...
She has also won three World Championships medals in 500 metres, and has placed in the top three in World Cup events four times in this distance. Her first World Cup victory, however, came on the non-Olympic distance 100 metres. On the 1000 metres, however, she has never placed higher ...
Farah is the most decorated athlete in British athletics history, with ten global titles, and was the first British athlete to win two gold medals at the same world championships, although Dame Kelly Holmes had achieved the feat at an Olympic Games. His five gold medals at the European ...
An all round cycling talent, he competed in Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics and won two gold medals in the 25 mile and the 2 mile, three silver medals in the ¼ mile, ⅓ mile and mile and a bronze medal in the ½ mile race.In later years Downing served as president of ...
He achieved international fame at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany by winning four gold medals: 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump, and 4 × 100 meter relay. He was the most successful athlete at the Games and, as a black man, was credited with "single-handedly crushing Hitler...