Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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]
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 ...
The ragtag members of the Kennedy clan turned out Monday for the funeral of Ethel Kennedy — the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, and the last link to the family's days of "Camelot" in the White House.
American obituary for WWI death Traditional street obituary notes in Bulgaria. An obituary (obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person. [1] Newspapers often publish obituaries as news articles. Although obituaries tend to focus on positive aspects of the subject's life, this is not always the case. [2]
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.
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2014.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: