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Aviation icon takes final flight (Edwards Air Force Base)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Nov 2016
(Source. Edwards Air Force Base) EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. --. The aviation world has lost a world-famous pilot and Air Force Test Center icon. Robert A. 'Bob' Hoover - fighter pilot, test pilot and master of aerobatics - passed away Oct. 25 at the age of 94 ... In 1944, he was shot down during his 59th combat mission off the coast of Southern France and spent 16 months as a POW in Stalag Luft 1 ... (noodl. 36099141) ....

Obituary: Bob Hoover, US aviation legend who escaped from Nazi prison camp in stolen plane

Edit Scotsman 01 Nov 2016
Bob Hoover, US aviation legend. Born. 24 January, 1922 in Nashville, Tennessee. Died. 25 October, 2016, in Torrance, California, aged 94 ... He was 94. His death was confirmed by Ron Kaplan of the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio, where Hoover was enshrined in 1988 ... The two had struck up a friendship ... He spent 16 months in Stalag Luft I, a prisoner of war camp in Germany reserved for Allied pilots ... The Bob Hoover Project ... history ... ....

Double Features on Blu-ray at Walmart from $5 + pickup

Edit CNET 25 Oct 2016
The movies. Disclosure / Fatal Attraction on Blu-ray for $5 (pictured, same at Amazon, low by $2) Face off / Snake Eyes on Blu-ray for $5 (same at Amazon, low by $5) Saturday Night Fever / Grease on Blu-ray for $5 (same at Amazon, low by $5) Stalag 17 / The Dirty Dozen on Blu-ray for $5.75 (same at Amazon, low by $4) Shutter Island / The Aviator on Blu-ray for $5.99 (same at Amazon, low by $4) ... ....

Famed aviator 'Bob' Hoover who escaped Nazis by stealing a plane dies at 94

Edit The Oklahoman 25 Oct 2016
With his gravelly Tennessee drawl and his trademark straw panama hat, R.A. "Bob" Hoover was an icon of American aviation prowess and heroism ... Hoover was born January 24, 1922 in Nashville, Tenn., and began flying at age 15 ... After being shot down in 1944, Hoover spent 16 months in a Stalag Luft I, a German prisoner of war camp on the northeastern coast of Germany, according to the National Aviation Hall of Fame ... Acrobatic Team in Moscow ... ....

National WWII Museum in New Orleans provides immersive experience

Edit The Oklahoman 18 Oct 2016
NEW ORLEANS — The National WWII Museum in New Orleans is a multibuilding behemoth that provides an immersive experience for visitors. And it all began with an offhand comment during an interview between historian Stephen Ambrose and former President Dwight Eisenhower ... “After enduring a forced march and a long, cramped ride, (he) arrived at Stalag IV-B, one of Germany’s largest POW camps ... It was Pfc ... If you go …. What ... Where ... When ... How much ... ....

Trump's ridicule, derision are terrible

Edit St Louis Post-Dispatch 11 Oct 2016
I wonder if Donald Trump would deride the survivors of the Bataan Death March and the German stalags of World War II as he did John McCain for being captured? And what would Trump say of the souls that didn't… ... ....

Joseph Harmatz, Holocaust ‘avenger’ who plotted reprisal against Nazi POWs, dies at 91

Edit Albuquerque Journal 29 Sep 2016
“They wanted justice to prevail after a horrible injustice was inflicted upon the Jewish people,” she wrote in an email, “so that no one would dare raise his hand against them again.” ... Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich” by Stephen Fritz ... Nakam then formed the plan to poison the bread provided to Nazi prisoners at Stalag 13, an American-run camp in Langwasser, outside Nuremberg ... 23, 1925....

Jewish WWII 'Avenger' Joseph Harmatz dead at 91

Edit Times Free Press 26 Sep 2016
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Holocaust survivor Joseph Harmatz, who led the most daring attempt by Jews seeking revenge against their former Nazi tormentors, has died. He was 91. His son, Ronel Harmatz, confirmed the death Monday ... Undercover members of the group found work at a bakery that supplied the Stalag 13 POW camp at Langwasser, near Nuremberg, and waited for their chance to strike the thousands of SS men the Americans held there ... ....

Blu-ray Review: 1985’s Evils of the Night

Edit Coming Soon 21 Sep 2016
Evils of the Night Blu-ray review. Release Date. August 30 ... Their Blood ... The two local grease monkeys are played in an alcoholic haze by Aldo Ray (We’re No Angels) fresh off of being fired from David Lynch’s Dune, and –in his final onscreen performance- Neville Brand (Stalag 17), who had previously worked with Evils of the Night producer/director Mardi Rustam on Tobe Hooper’s cult classic Eaten Alive ... Special Features ... ....

Holocaust ‘Avengers’ unapologetic for hitting back

Edit Rocky Mount Telegram 16 Sep 2016
TEL AVIV, Israel — Seventy years after the most daring attempt of Jewish Holocaust survivors to seek revenge, the leader of the plot only has one simple regret — that to his knowledge he didn't actually kill any Nazis ... The attack sickened more than 2,200 Germans but ultimately caused no known deaths. A recently declassified U.S ... Undercover members of the group found work at a bakery that supplied the Stalag 13, a U.S ... ....

Green councillor hits out at Judy Murray’s tennis and golf centre

Edit Scotsman 13 Sep 2016
ONE of Scotland’s most prominent Green Party politicians yesterday condemned Judy Murray’s plans for a multi million pound tennis and golf centre in the countryside near Andy and Jamie’s home town of Dunblane ... Mark Ruskell ... He added ... Mr Innes, representing an adjacent landowner, said it would be would be “lit up like Stalag 17” - the fictional camp in the 1953 Billy Wilder movie, starring William Holden ... He said ... ....

Battle of Britain Profile of Courage: Alfred Keith Ogilvie (Canada's Air Force)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Sep 2016
(Source. Canada's Air Force). By Shari St. John ... 609 Squadron, Royal Air Force ... After flying in the Battle of Britain, his Air Force service eventually led him to Stalag Luft III and the Great Escape ... His citation read ... As a 'guest' of the Germans he took part in the 'The Great Escape' when 76 Allied prisoners escaped from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 ... Ogilvie and some of his comrades who had escaped were brought back to Stalag Luft III....
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