He is depicted as one of four examples in bravery in the history of the German Air Force.
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In 1957 Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base became a joint-use facility with the new West German Air Force.
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The new name was approved by the Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs Monika Hohlmeier.
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Jacob C. Higgins was selected to serve as colonel, A. J. Greenfield as lieutenant colonel, and George T. Work, Elias S. Troxell, and Henry A. Myers as majors.
and to have been instrumental in the killing of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, the American Chief of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization's (UNTSO) observer group in Lebanon who was taken hostage on 17 February 1988 by Lebanese pro-Iranian Shia radicals.
In 1946 he became a prosecutor for the war crimes trials in Japan.
Christopher P. Higgins (1830–1889), American army captain and businessman
Richard W. Colcock (born 1806), Superintendent of the Citadel, (Military College of South Carolina), 1844–1852
Snooker player Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins also grew up on the road, having been born on Abingdon Drive.
The competition was founded in 2014, with the trophy to be awarded to the winning side by President of Ireland and League of Ireland fan, Michael D. Higgins.
He was the author of the syndicated column "The Yardstick," and was the author of numerous other writings on worker justice in light of Catholic social teaching.
George W. Higgins, American minister of the Holy Ghost and Us Society
The Guild was founded in 1945 and has included such eminent members as Cleanth Brooks, Brooks Otis, Henry Babcock Veatch, Frederick Pottle, W. H. Auden, Dell Hymes, Hyatt Waggoner and Richard W. Bailey.
Further, Higgins is commemorated by the federal electorate of Higgins in Melbourne, and by the Canberra suburb of Higgins, Australian Capital Territory.
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After his son Mervyn's death, Higgins effectively adopted his nephew Esmonde Higgins and his niece Nettie Palmer, paying for their education at universities in Europe.
In 1912, he ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate in the United States Senate election in Rhode Island.
However, enough votes went to the Regular Republican candidate, John C. Higgins, that the Democrat, Ebe W. Tunnell was elected.
He later continued his studies under the renowned dancer T. Balasaraswati, and wrote his dissertation on the dance music of bharatanatyam.
The Navy Yard was spared permanent closure in 1912 by an impassioned plea from local Congressman Edwin W. Higgins of Norwich, who was worried about the loss of Federal spending in the region.
These parks include Richard W. DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst, home to a butterfly garden, World Trade Center Memorial, overlook of New York City, several trails, and the NJMC's Meadowlands Environment Center.
Richard W. O'Neill (1898–1982), U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
Richard W. Richards (1893–1985), Australian explorer with Ross Sea Party 1914–17, awarded the Albert Medal
In 2008, Bailey co-authored an amicus brief with colleagues Dennis Baron and Jeffrey Kaplan, for the District of Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court case, providing an interpretation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution based on the grammars, dictionaries, and general usage common in the founders' day, and showing that those meanings are still common today.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress.
He was reappointed as Chair of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust in September 2009, after chairing it for four years.
From 1958 to 1973 Cook was employed as an executive at American Machine and Foundry Company and at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
The Thermopylae of Lieutenant Dick Dowling, in The Irish Sword by Patrick Denis O'Donnell, VOL.XXIII, no.91, Military History Society of Ireland, Dublin, Summer 2002 (pages 68–86)
He served his first appointment at St. John Church in Little Chute, Wisconsin, for two years, and then received assignment to the faculty of Sacred Heart Minor Seminary near Green Bay.
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After several years of serious illness, Gilsdorf died on May 4, 2005, and was buried at St. John the Baptist Cemetery in Howard, Wisconsin, near his father’s and mother’s tombs.
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For the final 23 years of his life he served as pastor of Holy Trinity Church in Casco, Wisconsin.
This job led to a six-year association with Troma Entertainment as the company's post-production supervisor when Charles Kaufman sent Haines over to his brother Lloyd Kaufman after Haines satisfied them with his editing and sound editing work on the film.
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Haines' next project was the 1994 sci-fi thriller Head Games, followed the by action film Run for Cover (1995), which starred Adam West and featured the final film appearance of Viveca Lindfors.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress.
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Hoffman was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1957).
Richard W. Hughes is an American gemologist and award winning author, known as an authority on Corundum: rubies and sapphires.
A 3-member committee, chosen by the President of the OAH, chooses the best history book on U.S. federal government agencies, U.S. foreign policies, U.S. military affairs, or biographies of government officials.
He was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974 but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate, losing to present U.S. Senator from Vermont Patrick Leahy in his initial run for the U.S. Senate.
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In between his service as Vermont Secretary of Administration, Mallary was elected as a Republican, by special election, to the Ninety-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Robert T. Stafford, and reelected to the Ninety-third Congress, serving from January 7, 1972-January 3, 1975.
Richard Richards was awarded the Albert Medal in 1923 for his efforts on the ice to save the lives of Spencer-Smith and Mackintosh, this award being converted in 1971 to the George Cross, an exchange offered to all Albert Medal holders then living.
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Fiftieth Congress).
Robert P. Higgins (born 1932), systematic invertebrate zoologist and ecologist
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Robert J. Higgins (born c. 1934), judge and politician in New Brunswick
Higgins is a 20-year veteran of the Marine Corps, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.
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Higgins is the widow of Colonel William R. (Rich) Higgins, a Marine officer taken captive by terrorists in Lebanon in 1988, and later murdered.
The Black Sleep (1956) is an American black-and-white horror film, scripted by John C. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams developed for producers Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch, who had a four-picture finance-for-distribution arrangement with United Artists.
Thomas J. Higgins (1831–1917), American Civil War soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor
The reviewer for the Chicago Tribune wrote that the novel “moves at a breakneck speed ... Stroby's sturdy plot is augmented by his intriguing look at how money corrupts and how even a crook can have a moral compass. Fans of Elmore Leonard and George V. Higgins' 'THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE' will find much to like.”
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress.
As a lieutenant, he participated in combat operations during 1968 with C Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines in the Republic of Vietnam as a rifle platoon commander and rifle company executive officer, and was aide-de-camp to the Assistant 3rd Marine Division Commander.
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Returning to the Fleet Marine Force in 1977, Capt. Higgins was assigned to the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where he again served as a rifle company commander with A Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines.