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26th Operational Weather Squadron

The Systems Flight consists of a Government Civilian personnel as well as Active Duty USAF Airmen with an AFSC of 3D0X2 (Cyber Systems Operator).

AB Thulinverken

AB Thulinverken was a company in Landskrona, Sweden, founded in 1914 as Enoch Thulins Aeroplanfabrik by the airman and aircraft technician Enoch Thulin.

Almost Transparent Blue

Jackson – African American Airman at the local AFB, he arranges for group sex escapades between his base comrades and Ryū's group.

Andrew P. Witt

Andrew Paul Witt (born 1982) is a former Senior Airman in the United States Air Force who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of a fellow Airman and his wife in 2004, while he was an avionics technician in the 116th Air Control Wing at Robins Air Force Base.

Bryan Ingham

For his National Service he joined the RAF, and spent his time in Germany as an airman employed in a number of what he regarded as tedious tasks before ending up in charge of the stores at RAF Celle under a laissez-faire sergeant, where he became an enthusiastic operator of the ways and means act.

Cooper Bluffs

They were named by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) for Flying Officer G. Cooper, Royal Australian Air Force, a member of the Antarctic Flight with the ANARE (Thala Dan), 1962, which explored the area.

Dale E. Stovall

A member of the 40th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron based in Thailand, on June 2, 1972, he recovered Maj. Roger Locher from deep inside North Vietnam, the furthest any airman was ever rescued from inside enemy lines.

David J. Farrar

Born in London, England in 1921, Farrar was the elder son of Donald Frederic Farrar (1897–1982), a former Royal Flying Corps supply pilot, and Mabel Margaret Farrar, née Hadgraft (1896–1985), and brother of RAF airman and poet James Farrar.

Fausto Vega Santander

On 1 June 1945, at the age of 21, the young airman was killed by the enemy Anti-aircraft warfare during a risky dive bombing mission against a Japanese site located in Subic Bay.

Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

The names of Flyboys were Jimmy Dye from Mount Ephraim, New Jersey, Floyd Hall from Sedalia, Missouri, Marve Mershon from Los Angeles, California, Warren Earl Vaughn from Childress, Texas, Dick Woellhof from Clay Center, Kansas Grady York from Jacksonville, Florida, Glenn Frazier from Athol, Kansas, and the Unidentified Airman, who was revealed to Bradley as Warren Hindenlang of Foxboro, Massachusetts after the publication of the hardcover edition.

Garforth

Some famous residents and ex-residents of Garforth include, Chris Silverwood, Dave Seaman and Andrew White, of the Kaiser Chiefs, John Birch (Rugby League Player for Leeds,England and Great Britain) The town was also the birthplace of Second World War airman, Sir Augustus Walker of the Royal Air Force.

Henry Wise

Henry Wise, Jr. (1920–2003), American physician and World War II Tuskegee Airman fighter pilot

Hubert Lewis

Bertie Lewis (1920–2010), World War II RAF airman and peace campaigner

John Starnes

According to the Federal Aviation Administration airman certification inquiry, Starnes is also a flight instructor for single engine airplanes.

Keith Virtue

Sir Lawrence Wackett, in the Foreword of Keith Virtue's biography, writes that he was an experienced airman himself but he marvelled at the ability and skill of Keith Virtue and counts him as one of the greatest of the Australians who devoted their life's work to the task of pioneering airlines in Australia.

Layton Cemetery

Layton Cemetery contains the graves of 139 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 39 of World War II, besides, from the latter war, 26 airmen of the Polish Air Force (whose headquarters in exile were in Talbot Square in the town), and one airman of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force.

Leo Mustonen

On February 11, 2008, JPAC Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command notified the next of kin that the second airman found on Mendel Glacier was Ernest Glenn Munn.

Maynard Harrison Smith

Staff Sergeant Smith quickly gained a reputation as a stubborn and obnoxious airman who did not get along well with the other airmen stationed there, hence his nickname "Snuffy Smith", possibly from the popular comic strip of the era.

Obergefreiter

The NATO-Code is OR-3 which would make Obergefreiter the equivalent to Private / Airman / Seaman First Class in most forces or, e.g., Lance Corporal in the Australian/New Zealand Forces.

Oliver Simmonds

At the top of the main entrance tower is a sculpture of an angel/airman by Eric Gill who designed and created the famous sculpture of Prospero and Ariel on Broadcasting House and the typeface Gill Sans.

Raymond Hughes

Raymond Davies Hughes, Welsh RAF airman, made propaganda broadcasts in Welsh for the Nazis during World War II

Rolando Gomez

His work has appeared in Parade Magazine, Rangefinder Magazine, D-Pixx Magazine, Peterson's 4-Wheel Drive, Stars and Stripes, Army Times, Airman, Soldiers, Playboy.com, Netscape.com, Studio Photography & Design, PMA Daily, and Leica World News.

Space and Missile Badge

On January 2014, General William L. Shelton (USAF) ordered the renaming of the Space Badge to Space Operations Badge and changed the rules associated with how Airman are eligible to earn the badge.

St Peter's Church, Martindale

However, the most noteworthy window is situated to the right of the nave and is dedicated to Saint Nicholas, patron saint of sailors, and is in memory of Lieutenant Commander W.H. Parkin and the officers and men of HMS Glorious which was sunk by German battleships in the North Sea in June 1940.The window shows an airman’s view of the aircraft carrier at full steam.

The Comet Dog

The project began in response to his longtime girlfriend's (Julianna) deployment to Balad, Iraq - Joint Base Balad, in July 2009, as a United States Air Force airman.

The Fatal Englishman

It is a multiple biography of the lives of the artist Christopher Wood, airman Richard Hillary and spy Jeremy Wolfenden.

United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka

The first murder was committed by Airman William Oliver Reese, who beat to death 56-year-old Yokosuka woman Yoshie Sato and proceeded to take the equivalent of $130 from her purse.

Wayne Fisk

In 1979, Fisk was honored as the first USAF enlisted man named to the US Jaycees Ten Outstanding Young Men of America, the Military Airlift Command’s Senior NCO of the Year, the US Air Force’s Outstanding Airman in the Philippines; and a recipient of the Air Force Association’s Citation of Honor.

William J. Kossler Award

The award consists of one certificate for the selected individual or crew and honors the memory of William J. Kossler, a U.S. Coast Guard airman, aeronautical engineer and early advocate of helicopters in USCG operations.

William Metzger

William E. Metzger, Jr. (1922-1944), American airman and Medal of Honor recipient

William Moorhouse

William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse, nephew of the above, first airman to be awarded the Victoria Cross

Woodlawn Vase

The perpetual trophy is now on display at The Baltimore Museum of Art under the direction of The Maryland Historical Society and is brought to Pimlico Race Course under guard by Maryland National Guard and Air National Airman in dress uniform for the annual running of the Preakness.


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