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    Group Captain John Allman Hemingway, DFC, AE (born 17 July 1919) is an Irish former Royal Air Force fighter pilot. He served during the Second World War...
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  • navigator/radar operator in the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1938 to 1945. He, along with John Hemingway, was one of the last two verified surviving aircrew...
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    only one survivor of The Few is still living (Flying Officer John Hemingway). By one tally, British RAF aircrew numbered 2,353 (80%) of the total of 2,927...
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  • March 2023 is Group Captain John Hemingway, who was born in Dublin and returned to settle in Ireland in 2011. A Flying Officer during the Battle, he damaged...
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    Charles Sweeny (category Officers of the French Foreign Legion)
    Army lieutenant colonel, French Foreign Legion officer, Polish army brigadier general, Royal Air Force (RAF) group captain, and journalist who fought in...
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    Commanding Officer of RAF Leconfield, Group Captain John "Paddy" Hemingway, at the age of 105 would be recognized as the last surviving RAF fighter pilot...
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  • Hong, written by David B. Randolph and starring Johnny Yune and Margaux Hemingway. A parody of kung fu movies, it became a sleeper hit. The film was followed...
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  • deemed to have been under the control of RAF Fighter Command. In 1955 Flt Lt John Holloway, a serving RAF officer, began a personal challenge to compile...
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    Beamont met Ernest Hemingway, who had flown over from America to report on the D-Day invasion and spent time in 150 Wing's officer's mess. On 2 October...
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    RAF Twinwood Farm to Paris. The plane disappeared while flying over the English Channel. "C'mon you guys! Let's get these guns off the beach." — John...
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    returned to the United States for the filming of John Frankenheimer's television adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's The Fifth Column. He also provided narration...
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    the British Army in hopes of being commissioned as an officer, Faulkner then joined the Canadian RAF with a forged letter of reference and left Yale to receive...
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  • surviving commissioned officer of Easy Company was Edward Shames (1922–2021). Główczewski was the last surviving pilot of the Polish RAF squadrons. The last...
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    Frederic Manning (category Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers)
    Amongst the voices raised in praise were those of Arnold Bennett, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound (who cited Manning as a literary mentor) and T. E. Lawrence...
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    William George Barker (category Royal Air Force officers)
    successful, and also most controversial raids – fictionalized by Ernest Hemingway in the short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" – was on 25 December 1917...
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    the central character is a British pilot named John Quayle who flies Gladiators with No. 80 Squadron RAF. An attempt in 1943 to make a film based on the...
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  • returns from a spy mission, he discovers that Ernest Hemingway has been moving in on her. Indy and Hemingway fight over Giulietta, until she reveals that she...
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    Bernard Montgomery (category Grand Officers of the Order of Leopold II)
    at a ratio of 15 parts gin to 1 part vermouth, and popular with Ernest Hemingway at Harry's Bar in Venice. The drink was facetiously named for Montgomery's...
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    Army Doctor in Sierra Leone. "Hanssen/Hemingway" focuses partly around Luc's past. He departed in "Hanssen/Hemingway", leaving for India to find Eddi. Paul...
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  • (director); David B. Randolph (screenplay); Johnny Yune, Margaux Hemingway, Bill Capizzi, Raf Mauro, Pam Huntington, Martin Azarow, Tony Brande, René Levant...
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  • from a sixth story window Ernest Hemingway (1961), American writer and journalist, gunshot to head Margaux Hemingway (1996), American fashion model, actress;...
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  • University of Delaware David Henderson (British Army officer), senior British Army and, later, RAF officer David Henderson (economist), chief economist at...
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  • Raffaello "Raf" di Lucca is a fictional character from the BBC medical drama Holby City, played by actor Joe McFadden. He first appeared in the sixteenth...
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  • Retrieved 15 August 2012. "Monte Cassino". IMDb.com. Retrieved 1 November 2012. "John Irvin to direct WWII love story feature Monte Cassino". M.screendaily.com...
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    Footage of Sellers playing four different roles was shot by Kubrick: "an RAF captain on secondment to Burpelson Air Force Base as adjutant to Sterling...
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  • Mercenaries in popular culture (category Cultural depictions of military officers)
    Harbor For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) – Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, Gary Cooper is a mercenary who finds meaning to life fighting in the...
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    events in Europe including the Spanish Civil War (reporting with Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn and Herbert Matthews) and the invasion of Poland by the...
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    W. Stratford. 1809. p. 500. Retrieved 6 March 2014. fitz ausculph. Hemingway, John (2006). An Illustrated Chronicle of the Castle and Barony of Dudley...
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    Tyrone Power (category United States Marine Corps officers)
    role in The Sun Also Rises (1957),[citation needed] adapted from the Hemingway novel, with Ava Gardner and Errol Flynn. This was his final film with...
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  • months, due to cost inflation in the production of dramas. A publicity officer told Joe Anderton from Digital Spy that this was decided to preserve the...
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