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Awards. Navy Distinguished Service Medal (2) Legion of Merit. Bronze Star Medal. George Whelan Anderson Jr. (December 15, 1906 – March 20, 1992) was an admiral in the United States Navy and a diplomat. Serving as the Chief of Naval Operations between 1961 and 1963, he was in charge of the US blockade of Cuba during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis .
Clarence Emil " Bud " Anderson (January 13, 1922 – May 17, 2024) was an officer in the United States Air Force and a triple ace of World War II. During the war he was the highest scoring flying ace in his P-51 Mustang squadron. Toward the end of Anderson's two combat tours in Europe in 1944 he was promoted to major at 22, a young age even for ...
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. [ 3][ 4][ 5] They made the first controlled, sustained flight of an engine-powered, heavier ...
Shakatak performing at Wuppertal, Germany, 2014. Shakatak is an English jazz-funk band founded in 1980 [ 3] by Bill Sharpe, Nigel Wright, Roger Odell and Keith Winter. Following an initial white label release, "Steppin", the band's name was derived from a record store in Soho, London Record Shack with the name created by Les McCutcheon, Passion ...
DAYTONA BEACH — Longtime local hotelier, condo developer and prolific real estate investor George Anderson – who one friend called "a real estate guru" – has died at the age of 83. George ...
The May Fly – Spring Tide-The Angler and His Friends, George Akerman, London, (1852) This annotated bibliography is intended to list both notable and not so notable works of English language, non-fiction and fiction related to the sport of fly fishing listed by year published.
English. Budget. $2.3 million [ 1][ N 1] Flight from Ashiya (aka Ashiya Kara no hiko) is a 1964 film about the U.S. Air Force 's Air Rescue Service, flying from Ashiya Air Base, Japan. In this American-Japanese co-production film set in the early 1960s, a flight crew's mission is to rescue a liferaft of Japanese civilians stranded in rough seas ...
Controversy over George W. Bush's military service in the Air National Guard was an issue that first gained widespread public attention during the 2004 presidential campaign. The controversy centered on Texas Air National Guard , why he lost his flight status, and whether he fulfilled the requirements of his military service contract.