Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Augustus Daymond was born on 25 November 1920 in Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana, USA. From the American Air Museum in Britain website we learn that he grew up in Ne...
The landings, also known as Operation Neptune, were the landing operations in Operation Overlord during WW2. The 'D' in D-Day doesn't stand for anything as it was used as a substitute for the actua...
Robert Lee Dean, Jnr was born on 13 October 1929 in Byars, Oklahoma, USA and died, aged 87 years, on 9 April 2017 in Warren, Pennsylvania, USA. His obituary gives many details of his life.
Pilot Officer Ben Perry De Haven was born on 29 August 1916 in Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky, USA. There would appear to be two ways in which his surname is presented, i.e. De Haven o...
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Dennis Butcher was born on 13 July 1958, the only son of Richard Dennis and Patricia M. Dennis née Butcher...
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Melanie Louise de Vere was born on 15 March 1971 in Plymouth, Devon. She was the second of the three child...
Flight Lieutenant Arthur Gerald Donahue DFC was born on 29 January 1913 in St Charles, Winona County, Minnesota, USA, the youngest of the five children of Frank Donahue (1873-1963) and Ada Gertrude...
Poet and writer. Born Pennsylvania, moved to London in 1911 as an Imagist poet. Her work was often infused with Greek mythology and she had a particular interest in the poetry of Sappho. Spent mu...
Captain Eric Ellington Doorly was born on 1 December 1920 in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, USA, the youngest of the three children of Edward Doorly (1873-1952) and Hallie R. Doorly née Mar...
567 more subjects