• and the Vietnam War. Iles was born on November 6, 1918, in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois to George D. Iles and Juanita Howell Iles. His father was a barber...
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    company is also targeting Serbia as a possible replacement for its G-4s and J-22 trainer aircraft and Australia to replace 33 BAE Hawk Mk 127 Lead-in Fighter...
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    December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. Laughter and Tears, by Captain George Rarey, a posthumous publication of letters and sketches from a pilot in...
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    of the top-scoring fighter groups. The top Mustang ace was the USAAF's George Preddy, whose final tally stood at 26.83 victories (a number that includes...
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    autobiography which has since been translated into German and Russian. George J. Iles, US Army Air Forces officer and fighter pilot with the 332nd Fighter...
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    get in the air and shoot down several Japanese aircraft, most notably by George Welch and Kenneth Taylor. In the Dutch East Indies campaign, the 17th Pursuit...
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    2007, 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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    March 6, 1942, Davis graduated from aviation cadet training with Captain George S. Roberts; 2nd Lt. Charles DeBow Jr. (Feb 13, 1918 – April 4, 1968), 2nd...
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    Harold K. Hoskins (P/AC) Esteban Hotesse (P/AC) Lincoln Hudson (POW) George J. Iles (POW) Eugene B. Jackson (OFS) Daniel "Chappie" James Jr. (P/AC) (SS)...
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    The political economy of urban redevelopment (1983): 80–125. Lewis, Emily J. "Corporate Prerogative, Public Use and a People's Plight: Poletown Neighborhood...
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    welfare of the entire nation, she will put them right." He was awarded the George Washington Freedom Foundation Medal in both 1967 and 1968. He received the...
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    were marched to Munich by the Germans, where they were freed by General George Patton's US Third Army. Jefferson returned to the United States on board...
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    Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc., 1980. ISBN 0-89747-102-4. Mellinger, George and John Stanaway. P-39 Airacobra Aces of World War 2. Botley, Oxford, UK:...
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    original twelve cadets, 2Lt. Lemuel R. Custis, 2Lt. Charles DeBow, 2Lt. George S. Roberts, and 2Lt. Mac Ross. "Spanky" Roberts was actually the first cadet...
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    used the initials "S.J." for fear his first name, Samuel, would be shortened to Sambo. In addition to being a full-time educator, S.J. farmed, sold real...
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    Sheppard, Retired Colonel Richard Tolliver, and retired Technical Sergeant George Watson Sr. visited Balad Air Base at Balad, Iraq, to meet with 700 servicemen...
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    Collaboration (Atlantic, 1964), with Laurindo Almeida The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (Atlantic, 1964–65) Jazz Dialogue (Atlantic, 1965)...
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    ISBN 0-912799-12-9. Deborah J. Larsen; Louis J. Nigro (2006). Selfridge Field. Arcadia Publishing. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-7385-4023-8. Deborah J. Larsen; Louis J. Nigro (2006)...
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    action—Stowers' two surviving sisters received the Medal of Honor from President George H. W. Bush at the White House. The success of the investigation leading...
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