John Francis Jackson DFC (23 February 1908 – 28 April 1942) was an Australian fighter ace and squadron commander of World War II. He was credited with eight aerial victories, and led No. 75 Squadron during the Battle of Port Moresby in 1942. Born in Brisbane, he was a grazier and businessman, who also operated his own private plane, when he joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Reserve in 1936. Called up for active service following the outbreak of war in 1939, Jackson served with No.
Orville and Wilbur Wright, a pair of modern day Daedalus’, grew up building and flying copies of the toy helicopter. According to the article “Wright Flight”, Orville and Wilbur owned a bicycle shop as adults, but in their spare time they researched the subject of flight and built different types of wings. On December 17, 1903 the Wright brothers successfully flew the first motorized bi-wing plane, “proving conclusively that sustained controlled flight was possible. The Wright brothers had changed the world. The age of flight had begun.” (“WayBack .
He was thrilled by the flight, and though his father wanted him to become a doctor, his mother encouraged him to pursue that dream. After attending the University of Arizona and University of Cincinnati, he joined the Army Air Corps in 1937. On August 17 1942, he led a dozen B-17 Flying Fortresses on the first daylight raid by an American squadron on German-occupied Europe, bombing railroad marshaling yards in the French city of Rouen. He flew General Dwight D. Eisenhower to Gibraltar in November 1942 en route to the launching of Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa, and participated in the first bombing missions of that campaign.
The Red Tail Pilots On October 9th, 1940, the U.S. Army Air Corps began allowing black men to join its ranks, ushering in an entirely new era of military aviation. Over the course of the next four years, nearly one thousand pilots would go through vigorous training to become military aviators. These aviators would often be assigned the most degrading tasks the Air Corps had to offer. However they proved themselves worthy of their title by war's end; racking up 109 confirmed kills, 111 German airplanes shot down, and 150 German airplanes destroyed on the ground. They were among the finest World War II aviators.
MINI CASE – Chapter 3 Ed Cowan was recently hired by Tuxedo Air Inc. to assist the organization with its financial planning and to evaluate the organization's performance. Ed graduated from university six years ago with a finance degree. He has been employed in the finance department of a TSX100 company since then. Tuxedo Air was founded 12 years ago by friends Mark Taylor and Jack Rodwell. The organization manufactured and sold light airplanes over this period, and its products have received high reviews for safety and reliability.
The Great Gatsby Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940 (http://tinyurl.com/cgnpqq6) The Great Gatsby was written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald between 1923 and 1924 and first published in the middle of the jazz age in 1925. Fitzgerald was born in 1896 and was raised in Minnesota, he was sent to an Ivy League school but unfortunately he never graduated and joined the army in 1917 when the First World War was coming to its end. While he was stationed in Alabama he met and fell in love with the local beauty, Zelda. Because of the time that they lived in Zelda was obsessed with wealth and material possession and only agreed to marry Fitzgerald if he could ‘prove himself’ (SparkNotes, 2002). He published his first book in 1920 and overnight became famous with enough money to impress
In 1931, Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil, receiving legendary blues skills in return. He went on to record only twenty-nine songs before being murdered on August 16, 1938. In 1992, however, Johnson suddenly reappears on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the misfit storyteller of the Spokane Tribe. When Johnson passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas--lead singer of the rock-and-roll band Coyote Springs--a magical odyssey begins that will take the band from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. Sherman Alexie imaginatively mixes narrative, newspaper excerpts, songs, journal entries, visions, radio interviews, and dreams to explore the effects of Christianity on Native Americans in the late twentieth century.
The biggest, most successful bomb raid for the Germans was when they bombed London on September 8, 1915. The damage cost London millions of pounds, and the damage was done by only one Zeppelin, the L-13. While bomb raids took place in London, Germany was bombing Paris too. It was easier for the Germans to bomb Paris because of the flight there and how close the German airship base was. After the war ended, the use of the Zeppelin declined.
Paired with vice presidential candidate Calvin Coolidge, Harding eschewed a speaking tour in favor of a “front porch” campaign in which he read carefully scripted speeches to delegations of visitors at his Marion home. After eight years of the administrations of President Woodrow Wilson, during which Americans had been asked to sacrifice greatly to reform the United States and to aid the Allied cause in World War I, Harding’s undemanding call for a return to normalcy was precisely what war-weary, disillusioned voters wanted to hear. Harding won the election by the largest landslide to date, capturing some 60 percent of the popular
We went to the Petrified Forest and the Grand Canyon that year. We took some burrows to the bottom of the canyon, and when we stopped to marvel at the power of the roaring Colorado River, I went exploring. I returned with what appeared to be a broken piece of ancient pottery. I was so excited! I am also leaving on April 13 to go on a “dig” in Oklahoma.