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Captain Henry Thomas Waskow (September 24, 1918 – December 14, 1943) was a United States Army officer, with the rank of captain, memorialized in Ernie Pyle's dispatch "The Death of Captain Waskow," which in turn was faithfully portrayed in the movie The Story of G.I. Joe.
"The Death of Captain Waskow", Pyle's most famous column, was written in December 1943 and published on January 10, 1944. [41] The National Society of Newspaper Columnists later selected it as "the best American newspaper column of all time". [110] The organization has bestowed the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award annually since 1993. [111]
"The Death of Captain Waskow" reprinted at the Indiana University School of Journalism Photos of Ernie Pyle from Story of G.I. Joe 1944 by Ned Scott The Story of G.I. Joe essay by Daniel Eagan In America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010: A Viewer's Guide To The 50 Landmark Movies Added To The National Film Registry In 2009–10, Bloomsbury Publishing ...
Waskow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur Waskow (born 1933), American author, political activist, and rabbi; Dieter Waskow (born 1957), German diver; Henry T. Waskow (1918–1943), American World War II captain; Thomas C. Waskow (born 1947), American Air Force officer
The sentence, "Waskow was born in DeWitt County, Texas, the seventh of eight children, by children of German immigrants" should be reworded. Consider breaking the sentence, "He attended the public schools and graduated from Belton High School in 1935, as president of the student council, receiving top grades and showing a particular aptitude ...
Thomas C. Waskow is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) lieutenant general who last served as Commander, United States Forces Japan and Commander, 5th Air Force from November 2001 to April 2005. During that assignment, he was the senior U.S. military representative in Japan and Commander of U.S. Air Force units in Japan.
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[20] [21] That encounter made him write a short story entitled "Your Death Hour is 10 O’clock". [22] He was Acting Dean Faculty of Arts University of Lagos in 2015 and Head of Department of English, University of Lagos from 2016 to 2019. [23] Eghagha has supervised many PhDs and was made a full professor in 2010.