Charles Walter Dryden (September 16, 1920 – June 24, 2008) was a U.S. Army Air Force officer and one of the original combat fighter pilot with the 332nd...
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by thick snow). To save themselves, the POWs leave the train and spell P-O-W with their bodies and prevent further strafing. After arriving at the new...
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John Dryden (/ˈdraɪdən/; 19 August [O.S. 9 August] 1631 – 12 May [O.S. 1 May] 1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who...
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also set a U.S. coast-to-coast record in 1947. He sold the Mustang to Charles F. Blair Jr (future husband of Maureen O'Hara), who renamed it Excalibur...
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Alfonza W. Davis Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (C/O) Charles DeBow Robert W. Deiz Gene Derricotte Lawrence Dickson Elwood T. Driver Charles W. Dryden Wilson V...
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Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2004. ISBN 978-1-57356-557-8. Cain, Charles W. and Mike Gerram.Fighters of World War II. London: Profile Publications...
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after white passengers had finished. She married Tuskegee Airman Charles W. Dryden in 1943. Their wedding was the first military wedding at Tuskegee...
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List of Tuskegee Airmen (section W)
Dickerson (P/AC) Lawrence Dickson † Elwood T. Driver (P/AC) Charles W. Dryden (P/AC) Irma Dryden (SS) Wilson V. Eagleson (P/AC) John Ellis Edwards (P/AC)...
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Charles Dryden (March 10, 1860 – February 11, 1931) was an American baseball writer and humorist. He was reported to be the most famous and highly paid...
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Brigadier General Charles Edward McGee (December 7, 1919 − January 16, 2022) was an American fighter pilot who was one of the first African American aviators...
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squadron claimed its first verified kill; a Fw 190 destroyed by Captain Charles Hall. The 99th continued to score with P-40s until February 1944, when...
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lengthy to include, see: IMDb profile. Ottumwa, Iowa, native, Captain Robert W. Williams, a wartime pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps' "332nd Fighter Group"...
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rotunda in Washington, D.C. by President George W. Bush on March 29, 2007. Brigadier General Charles McGee being honored by President Donald Trump at...
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James Y. Carter. Trial Judge Advocates were: Captain James W. Redden and 1st Lieutenant Charles B. Hall. In July 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive...
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Confederate Colonel, W.F. Foster, who was a candidate for re-election to the Alabama Senate, and a local black Leader, Lewis Adams. W.F. Foster offered that...
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enshrined in the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame. In 2004, President George W. Bush awarded Jefferson a Purple Heart for being wounded while being shot...
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Alfonza W. Davis Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (C/O) Charles DeBow Robert W. Deiz Gene Derricotte Lawrence Dickson Elwood T. Driver Charles W. Dryden Wilson V...
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Davis and five of the original twelve cadets, 2Lt. Lemuel R. Custis, 2Lt. Charles DeBow, 2Lt. George S. Roberts, and 2Lt. Mac Ross. "Spanky" Roberts was...
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Municipal Building in 1999. Young put together the financing package for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. He has a wing named after...
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Commemorative Air Force's Red Tail Squadron, surviving Tuskegee Airmen Colonel Charles McGee and Colonel Harold Brown provided perspectives related to the film's...
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fast unlimited racer, but a late arrival in 1972 kept the 2,000 hp (1,500 kW) racer out of the Reno races, and she was never entered again. Her color scheme...
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large construction spectacle. Chanute Field's first commander, Captain Charles C. Benedict, arrived in late June, and on 4 July, the first airplanes arrived...
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122°03′24″W / 37.99000°N 122.05667°W / 37.99000; -122.05667 Franklin Auxiliary Airfield (Aux 1) 38°18′13″N 121°25′47″W / 38.30361°N 121.42972°W / 38...
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Alfonza W. Davis Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (C/O) Charles DeBow Robert W. Deiz Gene Derricotte Lawrence Dickson Elwood T. Driver Charles W. Dryden Wilson V...
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Archer - 332nd Fighter Group's 302nd Fighter Squadron - 5 Confirmed Kills Charles B. Hall - 332nd Fighter Group's 99th Fighter Squadron 3 confirmed kills...
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cadets were John C. Anderson, Jr., Charles D. Brown, Theodore E. Brown, Marion A. Carter, Lemuel R. Custis, Charles H. DeBow, Jr., Frederick H. Moore,...
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Alfonza W. Davis Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (C/O) Charles DeBow Robert W. Deiz Gene Derricotte Lawrence Dickson Elwood T. Driver Charles W. Dryden Wilson V...
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he posthumously received the Congressional Gold Medal. President George W. Bush honored Roberts with the Congressional Gold Medal for bravery, patriotism...
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James Y. Carter. Trial Judge Advocates were: Captain James W. Redden and 1st Lieutenant Charles M. Hall. As the senior officer Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was...
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it is an allegory used to represent a story contemporary to Dryden, concerning King Charles II and the Exclusion Crisis (1679–1681). The poem also references...
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