A Greenville WWII captain was shot down, taken prisoner by Nazis. A memorial is planned in Germany.
Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...
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Medals of WWII fighter ace who survived terrifying 25,000ft death plunge but then was killed in Las Vegas pleasure flight crash 20 years later could sell for £30,000
But it made him rather over-confident, and for the next few days he regarded the German Air Force rather ... His citation reads: 'An outstanding fighter pilot who has now destroyed 8 enemy ...
John Hemingway, last airman from WWII’s Battle of Britain, dies at 105
In terse notations, the logbook kept by Royal Air Force fighter pilot John “Paddy” Hemingway in the summer of 1940 records the deadly struggles in the skies over England as wave after wave of German ...
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For some soldiers confined in German POW camps during World War II, ‘Monopoly’ was so much ... history and became the world’s first Black fighter pilot—all before the age of 30.
Last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, John 'Paddy' Hemingway, dies at 105
John "Paddy" Hemingway, the last surviving pilot who flew during the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 105.