Sergeant James Hubert Ronald Green (7 February 1897 – 15 December 1917) was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. Green was born...
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activist James Green (RFC airman) (1897–1917), British World War I flying ace James Alexander Green (1926–2014), British mathematician James I. J. Green, British...
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Royal Flying Corps (redirect from RFC Home Establishment)
the RFC signallers on the ground beside the battery command post to pick out calls for fire in their battery's Zone. Once ranging started the airman reported...
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Masamitsu Yoshioka, 106, Japanese World War II veteran, last surviving airman who attacked Pearl Harbor. (death announced on this date) Adolfo Calisto...
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described by his preeminent foe, Victoria Cross winner James McCudden, as "the bravest German airman". The pilot who actually killed Voss, Arthur Rhys-Davids...
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fictional character) Capt Bill Harsker, begins his flying career as an airman gunner in the front of a Vickers Gunbus and advances to become an ace pilot...
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head for the group's assembly point near the coast. Once airborne every airman had to hope that his oxygen mask and supply functioned properly when it...
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completed his training in the spring of 1917 and was assigned to No. 56 Squadron RFC on 7 March 1917. Rhys-Davids gained his first victory on 23 May 1917 and...
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and in 1916 joined Royal Flying Corps (RFC). After completing his training he was assigned to No. 40 Squadron RFC. Mannock went into combat on the Western...
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No. 2 Squadron RAF (redirect from No. 2 Squadron RFC)
first British airman to be awarded the Victoria Cross, during a raid on Kortrijk, Belgium on 26 April 1915. No. 2 Squadron became the first RFC squadron to...
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Grain. A Vickers F.B.4 (Gunbus no. 664) of 7 Squadron Royal Flying Corps (RFC), flown by Second-Lieutenant Montagu Chidson and the gunner, Corporal Martin...
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attempt to rescue a downed airman. At the beginning of the 2002 film Die Another Day, a Mil Mi-8T is commandeered by James Bond, to infiltrate the antagonists'...
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the nearby Aldershot Golf Course 10th Green. Both machines and all three airmen were from No. 5 Squadron, RFC. 4 June First fatal British seaplane accident...
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Northamptonshire. Adolf Hitler offered a reward to anyone who was able to catch the airman. Group Captain Leonard Cheshire was stationed at Marston Moor for a short...
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system." The system is now used to broadcast lightning warnings after an airman was struck while out on a ramp and killed. "At Eglin, the 1st Guided Missiles...
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is thought that after being rescued in the Bristol Channel, some German airman were brought ashore at Bideford, where they were taken to Bideford Hospital...
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1918 "The Chronicle". 21 June 1912. p. 11. Flight 22 July 1911 "British Airman killed at Brooklands". News in Brief. The Times. No. 39653. London. 2 August...
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born in Bulawayo in 1898, became the first Rhodesia-born airman in history when he joined the RFC in April 1916. He was severely wounded while bombing enemy...
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British press identifying living RFC pilots by name. The article discusses the exploits of Captains Philip Fuller and James McCudden. January 9 – In a dogfight...
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Карпат (in Ukrainian) Tuskegee Airman Robert Friend, Who Flew 142 Combat Missions in World War II, Dead at 99 Anthony Bubba Green, former Baltimore Colts player...
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