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Queen of the Skydivers
Georgia Ann Thompson was a very slight girl born in Oxford, NC on April 8, 1893. At birth, she weighed only three pounds and the nickname “Tiny” would stick to her for life. She was a different kind of young … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation, Aviation History
Tagged a grandmotherly persona, Broadwick’s World Famous Aeronauts, Charles Broadwick, Georgia Ann Thompson, Glenn Martin, Griffith Park in Los Angeles, I’ve Got a Secret, manually deployed the canopy, Oxford NC, parachuting from a hot air balloon, paratroopers, Queen of the Skydivers, reserve parachute, the first person to ever free-fall, the first woman to parachute from an airplane, the jump school at Fort Benning GA, the nickname “Tiny”, the US Army
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D-Day + 66 Years
It is difficult to think of the Normandy invasion as having taken place 66 years ago today. Today, a young soldier who hit that beach as an 18-year-old kid is 84 years old. His second lieutenant division officer is now … Continue reading
Posted in History, Life in General
Tagged 66 years ago today, an enormous debt of gratitude, anti-aircraft fire, D-Day + 66 Years, German machine gunners, landing craft, LSTs, oral histories, paratroopers, Sainte-Mère-Église France, surviving the war, the 101st Airborne, the 82nd Airborne, the Allied invasion force, the generation who saved the world, the Normandy invasion, the survivors, the Utah Beach landing, Vierville France, we who value our freedoms today, young soldiers, young warriors
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