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Ernest Childers (February 1, 1918 – March 17, 2005) was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his valorous actions in World War II.
Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), usually known as Erskine Childers (/ ˈ ɜːr s k ɪ n ˈ tʃ ɪ l d ər z / [1]), was an English-born Irish nationalist who established himself as a writer with accounts of the Second Boer War, the novel The Riddle of the Sands about German preparations for a sea-borne invasion of England, and proposals for achieving Irish ...
Ernest E. Evans † Navy: Commander: USS Johnston, off Samar: October 25, 1944: For heroic actions as captain of the destroyer U.S.S. Johnston during the Battle Off Samar, 25 October 1944. Upon sighting a massive Japanese force of Battleships and Heavy Cruisers transiting to attack General Douglas MacArthur's 200,000 encamped troops at Red ...
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Childers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alisa Childers (born 1975), American singer; Ambyr Childers (born 1988), American actress; Bob Childers (1946–2006), American country/folk singer-songwriter; Buddy Childers (1926–2007), American jazz trumpeter; Ernest Childers (1918–2005), American Army officer
Jack Cleveland Montgomery (July 23, 1917 – June 11, 2002) was a United States Army officer, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
In 2006, Ernest and Evelyn Rady made a donation of $60 million to Children's Hospital of San Diego, and the hospital was renamed Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego in their honor. The Rady family followed up with a gift of $120 million in 2014 to support the hospital's Institute for Genomic Medicine, and a pledge of $200 million in 2019. [9]
The novel contains many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the East Frisia coast, and large parts of his logbook entries from an 1897 Baltic cruise "appear almost unedited in the book". [1] The yacht Dulcibella in the novel is based upon Vixen, the boat Childers used for his exploration. [16]