• Thumbnail for Orvil A. Anderson
    Orvil Orson "Andy" Anderson (May 2, 1895 - August 24, 1965) was born in Springville, Utah. Anderson was an Army and Air Force officer, and a pioneer Army...
    9 KB (934 words) - 02:44, 14 June 2024
  • Orvil may refer to: Orvil A. Anderson (1895-1965), pioneer balloonist and United States Air Force major general Orvil Dryfoos (1912-1963), Wall Street...
    467 bytes (90 words) - 20:28, 26 June 2014
  • Thumbnail for Glenn Miller
    Major General Orvil Anderson, Deputy Commander for Operations of the Eighth Air Force, who was married to Miller's cousin Maude Miller Anderson, ordered a...
    111 KB (12,158 words) - 09:40, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hubbard Medal
    geography awards National Geographic Society Hubbard Medal, Captain Orvil Anderson First High-Altitude Photo Archived January 18, 2010, at the Wayback...
    9 KB (304 words) - 00:35, 11 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Air War Plans Division
    and Samuel E. Anderson. All but Samuel E. Anderson had passed through ACTS, where precision bombing theories were ascendant. Orvil Anderson was assigned...
    29 KB (3,936 words) - 15:52, 20 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for William Ellsworth Kepner
    fellow US Army Air Corp officers, Capt. Albert W. Stevens and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson as crew. However, the attempt nearly ended in tragedy when the balloon...
    8 KB (885 words) - 20:17, 27 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Albert William Stevens
    other Army Air Corps officers, Major William Kepner and Captain Orvil Arson Anderson, ascended in a specially-constructed balloon and gondola named Explorer...
    7 KB (591 words) - 23:04, 4 April 2024
  • Air Force major lieutenant general Orvil A. Anderson (1895–1965), U.S. Air Force major general Richard Dean Anderson, actor and honorary U.S. Air Force...
    4 KB (583 words) - 22:42, 3 February 2022
  • Thumbnail for Explorer II
    consisting of U. S. Army Air Corps Captains Albert W. Stevens and Orvil A. Anderson inside a sealed, spherical cabin. The crew landed safely near White...
    18 KB (1,901 words) - 04:19, 24 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey
    what had originally been the borough of Orvil, which was in turn created on March 8, 1905, from portions of Orvil Township. As of the 2000 census, Ho-Ho-Kus...
    65 KB (7,809 words) - 10:42, 17 August 2024
  • Valerian Zorin, Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations. John Aylward as Orvil Dryfoos, publisher of The New York Times Elya Baskin as Anatoly Dobrynin...
    23 KB (2,520 words) - 13:22, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gwiazda Polski
    11, 1935 by Albert William Stevens and Orvil Arson Anderson, in the Explorer II balloon. Stevens and Anderson ascended to the altitude of 22,066 m (72...
    11 KB (1,218 words) - 14:23, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Strategic Bombing Survey
    officer, USAAF General Orvil A. Anderson (who had been in the Air War Plans Division ) and that only in an advisory capacity. Anderson was the only one on...
    43 KB (5,967 words) - 13:14, 17 July 2024
  • Stewart, William L. 4 Stookey, Stonewall J. 8 Stringam, George L. 22 Thompson, Orvil L. 19 Tolton, John F. 20 Whootton, John H. 11 Wilson, James B. 10...
    4 KB (36 words) - 22:06, 17 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fruit flies in space
    research in medicine using flies. In 1935, Albert William Stevens and Orvil Arson Anderson ascended to 72,395 feet in a special balloon aircraft, and they carried...
    14 KB (1,851 words) - 12:03, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coos Bay, Oregon
    History Project. Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved April 15, 2012. Dodge, Orvil (1898). Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, Oregon. Salem, Oregon:...
    54 KB (5,365 words) - 22:22, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Combined Bomber Offensive
    Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell, Jr.; and including Brig. Gen. Orvil A. Anderson completed a plan for the "Combined Bomber Offensive from the United...
    54 KB (5,577 words) - 20:54, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
    commander of Far East Air Forces during the Korean War. Major General Orvil A. Anderson, USAF: participant in altitude record-setting Air Corps Stratospheric...
    46 KB (5,844 words) - 06:50, 19 August 2024
  • LeMay and Nathan F. Twining, Air Force Generals George Kenney and Orvil A. Anderson, General Leslie Groves (the wartime commander of the Manhattan Project)...
    30 KB (4,092 words) - 20:11, 3 August 2024
  • Vesaas 1944 – Inger Hagerup 1945 – Johan Borgen 1946 – Emil Boyson, Ernst Orvil, Tore Ørjasæter 1947 – Nils Johan Rud 1948 – Ingeborg Møller, Aksel Sandemose...
    4 KB (392 words) - 20:56, 20 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Balloon (aeronautics)
    Explorer II balloon, piloted by US Army Air Corps officers Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, Maj. William E. Kepner and Capt. Albert W. Stevens, reached a new...
    41 KB (4,969 words) - 01:28, 11 July 2024
  • Gomez A drug dealer and a cousin of Daniel Gonzales. [citation needed] Orvil Red Feather A Cheyenne teenage grandson of Jacquie Red Feather. [citation...
    209 KB (1,994 words) - 01:12, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mackay Trophy
    Fairbanks, Alaska, and back. 1935 Captain Albert William Stevens Captain Orvil Arson Anderson Flew balloon to 72,395—a then-record. 1936 Captain Richard Emmel...
    56 KB (558 words) - 13:25, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ulysses S. Grant
    moved to Georgetown, Ohio, where five siblings were born: Simpson, Clara, Orvil, Jennie, and Mary. At the age of five, Ulysses started at a subscription...
    188 KB (22,727 words) - 15:42, 20 August 2024
  • Brown 1991 Builder Norman Rickards 1991 Builder Mary Van Ess 1992 Curler Orvil Gilleshammer 1993 Builder Ann Brown 1994 Curlers (Team) The 1965 world champions...
    6 KB (324 words) - 02:17, 18 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Angela Lansbury on screen and stage
    Drama; 4 Other Movies Have Local Premieres". The New York Times. Dryfoos, Orvil E. (publ.). eISSN 1553-8095. ISSN 0362-4331. LCCN sn78004456. OCLC 1645522...
    76 KB (3,777 words) - 16:10, 6 August 2024
  • Miller Jr., Edward G. - lawyer. Miller-Rodriguez, Irene - military Miller, Orvil - actor and musician. Miller, Virgil R. - military. Mohr, Nicholasa - writer...
    58 KB (5,045 words) - 19:30, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Columbus Delano
    traderships. Orvil received rights to operate four trading posts, then set up "partners" who kicked back half their profits to Orvil. Though Orvil claimed...
    90 KB (10,353 words) - 21:44, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Waldwick station
    Jersey City and vice versa. The establishment of Orvil Township, New Jersey (named after local resident Orvil Victor) in the late 1880s helped pushed the interest...
    24 KB (2,175 words) - 12:21, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stratobowl
    William Stevens, Capt. Orvil Arson Anderson and Maj. William E. Kepner were selected to fly the Explorer. Kepner and Anderson, experienced balloonists...
    7 KB (862 words) - 19:54, 12 August 2024