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George Earl Preddy Jr. (February 5, 1919 – December 25, 1944) was a United States Army Air Forces officer during World War II and an American ace credited with 26.83 enemy air-to-air kills (a number that includes shared one-half and one-third victory credits), [1] ranking him as the top P-51 Mustang ace of World War II and eighth on the list of highest scoring American aces.
Jimmy Carter — From 2015 book, 'A Full Life’ Jimmy Carter, who rose from humble peanut farmer to president, dies aged 100. Monday 30 December 2024 08:00, Oliver O'Connell. James Earl “Jimmy ...
PHOTO: Jack Carter and his wife Liz Grandson react at the state funeral services for former President Jimmy Carter at the National Cathedral on Jan. 9, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Pool/Getty Images)
India has mourned one of its longest-serving prime ministers, Manmohan Singh, with a state funeral in Delhi. Singh led the country from 2004 to 2014 and was considered the architect of India's ...
Preddy's younger brother William was also a P-51 pilot in the European Theater of Operations in WWII, and was also killed in action, but was not an ace, as he had fewer than the requisite five kills. (IIRC he had two.) lpadilla@voicenet.com 207.103.47.111 03:04, 16 August 2007 (UTC) Preddy is listed as the 6th highest scoring US ace.
His funeral is the template for all state funerals held in Russia today, but with the addition of prayers at the moment of burial by representatives of the Orthodox Church. In November 2010, the Russian Federation's third Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin was buried in a state funeral in a church ceremony at the Novodevichy Cemetery. He was ...
Vice President Kamala Harris delivered one of the eulogies for Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. Former President Jimmy Carter will lie in state at the Capitol from Tuesday evening ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...