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unusual facts about The Fighter



Bill Lobley

These include A Warrior's Heart, (the 2012 autobiography of Micky Ward from the movie The Fighter), the popular Geronimo Stilton series, and dozens of children's titles, as well.

Paul E. Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell

In 2009, the boxing scenes of the 2010 film The Fighter were shot here with Mark Wahlberg portraying Micky Ward, Lowell's own boxer who won a world championship, and Christian Bale portraying his brother Dicky Eklund.


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352d Special Operations Group

The unit then served in the China-Burma-India Theatre of operations, with the fighter units flying missions over Bangkok, Thailand.

After May 1945 the fighter squadrons were in training, and in June the group's C-47s were sent to Ledo to move road-building equipment.

Adaridi AD 3

The aircraft was stationed at the fighter squadron at Utti air force base from the summer of 1924 until 1931.

Ambri Airport

It was home to the Fighter Squadron 8, whose fleet included the :EKW C-35, :Messerschmitt Bf 109, :de Havilland Vampire, :de Havilland Venom and the :Hawker Hunter.

Arthur Chin

In 1939, while flying a Gloster Gladiator, the fighter in which he scored 6.5 of his 8.5 aerial victories, he was hit by enemy fire and forced to bail out of his burning aircraft, and although he parachuted to safety, he suffered serious burn injuries.

B. G. Burkett

Growing up his "heroes were not sports figures like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays but the fighter pilots who had blasted the Luftwaffe out of the sky".

Bob Halloran

Paramount Pictures has retained Bob Halloran as a technical consultant for the producers of the upcoming film The Fighter starring Mark Wahlberg as Micky Ward and Christian Bale as Micky's brother Dicky Eklund.

Caudron C.714

The primary changes were a new wing airfoil profile, a strengthened fuselage, and instead of two cannons, the fighter had four 7.5 mm MAC 1934 machine guns in the wing gondolas.

Charles Godefroy

The choice fell on Jean Navarre, who had twelve air victories and was considered to be an ace among the fighter pilots.

Dimitar Spisarevski

Later, he went on to study in Nazi Germany, where he graduated from the fighter pilot school in Werneuchen in 1938.

Fighter Mafia

The Fighter Mafia was a controversial group of U.S. Air Force officers and civilian defense analysts who, in the 1970s, advocated the use of John Boyd and Thomas P. Christie's Energy-Maneuverability (E-M) theory as the sole driver in designing fighter aircraft.

Leaf Trading Cards

In 2011, Leaf came to terms with Muhammad Ali to produce a 100-card set based on the fighter's career.

Luminox

Among the more popular watch models are those designed using visual elements of the fighter jets made by Lockheed Martin.

Medal of Honor: Frontline

Lt. Patterson infiltrates the secret airfield outside Gotha where the fighter is held, cripples German aircraft production, fights and kills Sturmgeist, and escapes the airfield using the HO-IX.

Mikoyan Project 1.44

On 24 December 1998, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta published a brief article on the fighter, accompanied by several photos.

Mistel

A Focke-Wulf Fw 190 (Werk Nr. 733682), preserved in the Imperial War Museum in London, was the fighter part of a Mistel system that was captured by British forces in 1945.

Photosynth

In MSN's coverage of the 70th anniversary of the RAF victory in the Battle of Britain, a Photosynth hangar of some of the fighter planes from the battle was built.

Qaher-313

Two days after the unveiling ceremony, Mehr News Agency published the top ten features of the fighter jet project.

RAF Calveley

In December 1940, it was decided to build an airfield near the village of Wardle, Cheshire, north-west of Nantwich, as one of a number of airfields intended to boost the fighter defence of Merseyside.

Reinhard Seiler

JG 54 was tasked with providing the fighter cover for Army Group North and its advance toward Leningrad.

Shenyang J-31

Lin Zuoming, chairman of China's AVIC, has said that he hopes to put domestic engines on the fighter.

Sion Airport

In addition to the prop-types Pilatus PC-6, Pilatus PC-7, Pilatus PC-9 and Pilatus PC-21 as well as helicopters it uses Sion intensively with the fighter jets F/A- 18 and F-5 Tiger.

Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Babalu II

The Fighter Exchange Program is intended to be a tie-in to the Career Mode of the EA Sports MMA game, and features multimedia documentation of four young prospects (Bettega, Cummins, Martytniuok, Phillips) traveling, learning, and training with four established veterans (Jacare Souza, Jason Miller, Gegard Mousasi, Luke Rockhold).

Yoshinao Kodaira

Participating in many of the Pacific War battles and campaigns as a member of several units, including the fighter units of the aircraft carriers Shōkaku and Chiyoda, Kodaira was officially credited with destroying 13 enemy aircraft.