Sentences with phrase «air force during»

Johns started his career in Toronto in 1935 in real estate sales and came to Calgary as a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.

He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War and both he and his family made significant cultural gifts to the city of Toronto during the past three decades.»

After serving in the United States Air Force during World War II, Garabedian received an undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California in 1950.

Born on June 25, 1923 in San Mateo, CA, he briefly served in the US Air Force during World War II but was injured during a test flight.

Francis served in the United States Air Force during World War II before being injured during test flight maneuvers.

After graduation he enlisted in the Air Force during the Korean War where he served in the Air Force for four years as a cartographer, before coming to Cranbrook, where he received his MFA in Ceramics 1958.

He served in the United States Air Force during World War II before being injured during test flight maneuvers.

Francis served in the United States Air Force during World War II before being injured in a plane crash.

Kenneth Noland (b. 1924, Asheville, North Carolina; d. 2010, Port Clyde, Maine) attended Black Mountain College in the late forties after serving in the Air Force during World War II.

Norman Bluhm studied architecture with Mies van der Rohe in Chicago prior to serving in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II..

She served our country as a member of the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War and earned the rank of Sergeant.

Bill served in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War, attended college and thereafter began a 40 + year career with a Fortune 100 company where he is currently employed as a Senior Manager responsible for a global business line.

From 1940 to 1943 Gravenhurst was an important training camp for what is today the Royal Norwegian Air Force during World War II.

When Hitler destroyed 80 percent of the Soviet air force during the early days of World War II, the decorated Russian air hero, Colonel Maxim Chibisov, was personally selected by Joseph Stalin to fly to Elizabeth City, North Carolina, with 300 Soviet airmen.

An instant hit in the UK, this is the true account of a German shepherd who was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War II, joined in flight missions, and survived everything from crash - landings to parachute bailouts - ultimately saving the life of his owner and dearest friend.

As a teen, Eli Goldstein adored his Uncle Poxl, a Czech Jew who served in the British Royal Air Force during World War II and lived to write a best - selling memoir.

He attended Pasadena City College for two years, then enlisted in the Air Force during the Korean War and served as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer in the Military Air Transport Service.

Before writing some of the most beloved children's books of all time, Dahl served as fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force during World War II.

An epic romantic drama about two Czech pilots, serving together in the U.K.'s Royal Air Force during World War II, who fall in love with the same woman.

Weightlifting became Manohar's obsession while serving for the Royal Air Force during the 1940's.

He said: «Yushau (former Director of Finance and Accounts of the Nigeria Air Force during Badeh's tenure) had called me to his official residence and showed me a drawing of a building to be constructed in Yola for his boss, Badeh.

He was called back to serve with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and was stationed in Germany.

The connection goes even deeper than food, as Alfred Martinez, son of the chain's founder, honorably served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force during World War II.

He worked with the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R - AK) and the late Senator Daniel K. Inuye (D - HI) on the project and recalled that Stevens, who served as a pilot in the Army's air force during World War II, was eager to investigate claims that service members were often hesitant to report sightings to their superiors due to fear of being laughed at or stigmatized.

One of my childhood heroes was the pilot Douglas Bader, who lost both his legs in a crash early in his career but went on to fly fighter planes for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

He also served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, family members said.

He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II as a B - 26 bomber pilot from 1942 to 1945.

He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II as a B - 26 bomber pilot.

About Blog Reviews of books featuring aircrew of the RAF, FAA and Commonwealth air forces during the Second World War with occasional reviews of other titles covering the conflict.

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McCampbell was the commander of the Navy's Air Group Fifteen, often known as the «Fabled Fifteen,» on Oct. 24, 1944, when a large Japanese force was spotted near the USS Essex during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

In fiscal year 2017, which ended in September, the shortage of pilots grew, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said during a press briefing on Thursday, speaking alongside Goldfein.

The most famous occurred on Air Force II during the 1984 presidential race, as Reagan and Bush were being challenged by the Democratic ticket of Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro.

If you look at drones, as advanced as they might seem, we are actually at the point where nascent air forces were in 1916 during WWI.

Addressing the argument that Canada needs a plane that can operate jointly with the American fleet, former German air force pilot Joey Borkenstein emphasized how well the Eurofighter worked alongside U.S. aircraft during the air war over Libya.

On January 24, 1963, a U.S. Air Force B - 52 plane flying low to the ground during a «Terrain Avoidance Flight» encountered turbulence and crashed, killing seven passengers.

The fire that raged during the bombing made superheated air rise with such force that it created a vacuum on the ground, ripping trees out of the ground, sucking people into the fires, and suffocating those spared the flames.

In a statement to news site The Verge on Monday, the Air Force's 45th Space Wing, which is tasked with keeping the public safe during launches, said that the shutdown has caused it to remove «key members of the civilian workforce» from its efforts.

The picture of Pfc. William Snyder practicing «woodlawn stalking» was taken in early April during a 1 - 173 infantry training exercise at Eglin Air Force Base.

On the fifth day, British Special Air Service — an elite reserve force that typically intervenes during extreme hostage situations and counterterrorism raids — stormed the prison with smoke bombs and stun guns, according to The Scotsman.

Filmed during the two summer 2017 deployments, the video in this post shows the U.S. Air Force F - 16s of the 14th Fighter Squadron from Misawa Air Base, Japan, at work from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, and Eielson AFB, where the unit deployed in the last months to take part in Cope North and Red Flag Alaska exercises.

The Air Force wants to ensure they can never broadcast during refueling in order to avoid fires.

So we have to look at that from that perspective,» the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, or STRATCOM, Air Force Gen. John Hyten said during the Association of the United States Army's Air and Missile Defense conference Wednesday.

Some of the airstrikes may have been close air support to a Yemeni and coalition offensive to clear Shabwah from AQAP during the summer of 2017, which US Special Forces supported.

To demonstrate his software's capabilities to the Air Force, Mr. Versace said, Neurala used its software on a ground drone from Best Buy to make it recognize and follow around the service's secretary, then Deborah Lee James, during a meeting.

«We must continue to transition quickly from an industrial age model of acquisition to an information age model,» said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein during an Air Force Association breakfast.

A Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) air force formation conducted island patrols during training on Thursday morning.

It allegedly shows a U.S. Navy F / A -18 E Super Hornet shadowed by an IRIAF (Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force) F - 4E Phantom during a close encounter occurred somewhere over the Middle East.

This weekend, fighter jets will thunder and barrel roll over the beach during the Fort Lauderdale Air Show May 5 - 6, but plane watchers won't see the Air Force Thunderbirds take flight.

During a recent interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, Winslow explained that in the past, Mexican drug cartels routinely kidnapped women and young girls — after murdering their husbands and fathers — and forced them into slave labor on giant marijuana farms.

When his school was emptied of younger teachers during World War II, he coached all the boys» athletic teams and directed the high school air force cadet squad while maintaining other classroom responsibilities.