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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.
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 ...
George Preddy, World War II fighter ace [97] Ethel Clay Price, nurse and socialite [98] Julian Price, insurance executive [98] Ricky Proehl, NFL player [99] Morgan Radford, journalist and reporter for NBC News and MSNBC [100] D.J. Reader, NFL Defensive Tackle [101] Eddie Robinson, Major League Soccer (MLS) player [102]
Sarann Knight-Preddy (July 27, 1920 – December 22, 2014) was an American business leader and gaming pioneer in the U.S. state of Nevada. In 1950, she became the "first and only woman of color to receive a gaming license" in the state. [ 1 ]
George Preddy (1919–1944), USAF fighter ace Edward F. Rector (1916–2001), USAF fighter ace, member of the Flying Tigers ( Marshall ) Ida Van Smith (1917–2003), pilot and flight instructor ( Lumberton )
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
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.
1919 – Birth of George Preddy, American WWII fighter ace, top P-51 Mustang ace of WWII and 6th on the list of all-time highest scoring American aces. 1919 – Birth of Ion Dobran, Romanian WWII flying ace and airliner pilot. 1918 – Death of Harold Day, Welsh WWI flying ace, killed in action in his in his Sopwith Camel.