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Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1946 (29 P) Pages in category "1946 deaths" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,840 total.
The Philippine Army was created in 1935 to prepare the Philippines to become independent in 1946 with its own independent military. Many U.S. military officers became officers in the new Philippine Army, the most famous amongst them being Field Marshal of the Philippine Army Douglas MacArthur.
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in March 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
The U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939–1945 (payment required) contains the names of many American servicemen executed by military authority overseas. These people are generally identified in the Rosters as GP (or General Prisoners) and were interred under the category of Administrative Decision.
Jarvis Offutt – U.S. Army Air Service aviator and namesake of Offutt Air Force Base; Robin Olds – Two-war triple flying ace; George Olesen – Cartoonist; Patrick O'Neal – Film actor; Robert Osborne – Actor, film historian and author best known as the primary host of the cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) for more than 20 years
Liu Nia-chien, Major in the Chinese Military, died October 19, 1946 [17] Ruth A. Lucas (1920–2013), the first African American female Air Force Colonel; Francis Lupo (1895–1918), private killed in France during World War I; holds the distinction of possibly being the US service member missing in action longest to be found (1918–2003)
The 1946 Windsor-Tecumseh, Ontario tornado on the Detroit River kills 17. Laurence Olivier's Henry V opens in the United States nearly 2 years after its release in the UK. It is the first Shakespeare film in color, and critics hail it as the finest film of a Shakespeare play ever made.
Major general; recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star, and the Legion of Merit [31] Harold Huntley Bassett: 1929 Major general; commander of the U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Air Weather Service; commander of the United States Taiwan Defense Command; recipient of the Legion of Merit [32] James M. Gavin: 1929