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The 190th Fighter Squadron, Blues and Royals friendly fire incident was a friendly fire incident involving two United States Air Force (USAF) Air National Guard 190th Fighter Squadron A-10 Thunderbolt II ground attack aircraft, and vehicles from the British D Squadron, The Blues and Royals of the Household Cavalry, and took place on 28 March 2003 during the invasion of Iraq by armed forces of ...
Major General John Francis Curry (April 22, 1886 [1] – March 4, 1973) was the first national commander of the Civil Air Patrol, the United States Air Force Auxiliary. He was also a major general in the United States Army Air Corps .
Presumptive finding of death [3] March 12: Jeffs, Clive G: 1st Lieutenant: USAF: 614th Tactical Fighter Squadron: South Vietnam, Khánh Hòa Province: His F-100D #56-3415 crashed while on a close air support mission [203] Presumptive finding of death [3] March 13: Creed, Barton S: Lieutenant: US Navy: VA-113, USS Ranger: Operation Commando Hunt ...
Prouty was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on January 24, 1917, to Marie Ozias Desautels, age 32, and Leroy Fletcher Prouty, a municipal government employee, age 28. [3] [4] He was the first child in a growing family and would eventually become one of five, with two brothers and two sisters.
The teenage brother of a U.S. Air Force airman who was fatally shot in his home by a Florida sheriff's deputy in May has been killed in a shooting in the Atlanta area, police said. “The Fortson ...
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Colonel Andrew Julius Evans, Jr., United States Air Force, for gallantry in action against an armed enemy as Group Leader of sixteen F-84 type aircraft of the 49th Fighter Bomber Group, Fifth Air Force, on ...
William Edwin Dyess (August 9, 1916 – December 22, 1943) was an officer of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. [1] He was captured after the Allied loss at the Battle of Bataan and endured the subsequent Bataan Death March.
Chaplain (Major General) Robert Preston Taylor, USAF (April 11, 1909 – February 1, 1997) was an American military officer who served as the 3rd Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force. A graduate of Baylor University in Waco, Texas , he notably served as a chaplain during World War II and was a prisoner of war and survivor of the ...