• 2LT Wallace Patillo Reed (November 22, 1919 – November 12, 1999) was a World War II U.S. Army officer, U.S. military meteorologist, and the first ever...
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    directors, Alexander P. de Seversky was removed from the newly reorganized Republic Aviation company, with former Managing Director Wallace Kellett taking over...
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    The Whole Nine Yards: The Story of an Anzac P-40. Auckland, NZ: Reed Books, 2002. ISBN 0-7900-0835-1. (A P-40 with No. 75 Squadron RAAF) Kinzey, Bert....
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    Tuskegee Airmen, who painted their airplanes' tails red, and to the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, an aircraft flown by the 99th Fighter Squadron, the U.S. Army...
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    The Bell P-39 Airacobra is a fighter produced by Bell Aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. It was one of the principal...
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  • to Stalag VI-A prisoner of war camp at Hemer, Germany. While en route, a P-51 Mustang attacks (the letters POW were painted on the top of the train,...
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    Peter N. Mustangs of the RAAF and RNZAF. Sydney, Australia: A.H. & A.W. Reed Pty Ltd, 1975. ISBN 0-589-07130-0. Angelucci, Enzo and Peter Bowers. The...
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    Tail" Fighter group at the Ramitelli Airfield near Foggia, Italy, flying the P-51 Mustang. Assigned to a fighter escort wing protecting bombing missions...
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    Plinton Jr. (P/AC) (SS) Wendell O. Pruitt (P/AC) Louis R. Purnell Sr. (P/AC) (SS) Lincoln Ragsdale (P/AC) Della H. Raney (SS) Wallace P. Reed (OFS) Emmett...
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  • the missions." Flight Journal, February 2012. Windham, Ryder, Daniel Wallace and Pablo Hidalgo. Star Wars: Year By Year – A Visual Chronicle. New York:...
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  • States. Boston: Brown and Company. p. 5. Retrieved August 17, 2012. Washington, Booker (1995). Up From Slavery. Dover. p. 127. ISBN 9780486287386. Soares...
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  • and North American P-51 Mustangs were representative of the many types flown by the Tuskegee Airmen. A small number of authentic P-51 fighter aircraft...
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    Bell P-39 Airacobra, 1942–1944 Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, 1942–1944 Republic P-47 (later F-47) Thunderbolt, 1944, 1947–1948; 1948–1949 North American P-51D...
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  • writer Edgar Wallace followed, and Reed became his personal assistant in 1927. Apart from acting in a few Wallace-derived films himself, Reed became involved...
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    1948, Young supported Progressive Party presidential candidate Henry A. Wallace. In 1952, Young stunned observers when he appeared before the McCarthy...
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    (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 196. ISBN 0-85112-580-8. "Percy Heath | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved...
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    transferred to the Mediterranean theater in late 1943 where Pruitt flew the P-47 Thunderbolt. In June 1944, Pruitt and his occasional wingman, 1st Lt. Gwynne...
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    trained pilots for the all-Black 99th Pursuit Squadron. After completing P-40 Warhawk training and then B-25 Mitchell training, James served as a B-25...
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    at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He was interred with Agatha on July 17, at Arlington National Cemetery. A Red Tail P-51 Mustang...
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    War II, flying the Bell P-39 Airacobra, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft. Flying a P-51C fighter with the distinctive...
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    1993 – present Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (1943–1944) Bell P-39 Airacobra (1944) North American P-51 Mustang (1944–1945) Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (1944, 1945–1949)...
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    Herrington Buford A. Johnson Thomas Ellis Theodore Johnson Noel F. Parrish Wallace P. Reed Willie Rogers Thomas Franklin Vaughns Related African American military...
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    Directory of Military Bases in the U.S., Oryx Press, Phoenix, Ariz., 1991, p. 147. World War I Group, Historical Division, Special Staff, United States...
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  • Tuskegee Airmen (category North American P-51 Mustang)
    aircraft were, in succession: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, Bell P-39 Airacobra, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft. With...
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    to bivouac in tents. Mather Field's first commander was 1st Lieutenant Sam P. Burman, who assumed command on 15 March 1918. The first unit stationed there...
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  • Project until June 2011, maintains and flies a World War II era North American P-51C Mustang. The twice-restored aircraft flies to create interest in the history...
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    Valentine's Day. McGee flew the Bell P-39Q Airacobra, the Republic P-47D Thunderbolt, and the North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft, escorting...
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    William Wallace Halleck Reid (April 15, 1891 – January 18, 1923) was an American actor in silent film, referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover"...
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    and the Rise of the Populist Right (New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, p. 64); ISBN 9781400042623 Mahler, Jonathan (2005). Ladies and gentlemen, the...
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    Donna Reed (born Donna Belle Mullenger; January 27, 1921 – January 14, 1986) was an American actress. Her career spanned more than 40 years, with performances...
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