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Curtis Emerson LeMay
Curtis Emerson LeMay , 1906-90, U.S. general, b. Columbus, Ohio. Commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. army air corps in 1930, he advanced through grades and in World War II commanded a bomber group in Europe and later the 20th Air Force in the Pacific. After the war he served (1945-47) as de...
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Sir Arthur Coningham
Sir Arthur Coningham , 1895-1948, British air marshal, b. Australia. During World War I, he served first in the New Zealand army and then joined (1916) the Royal Flying Corps, a forerunner of the Royal Air Force. He remained in the air force and became air vice marshal after the outbreak of World Wa...
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David Dixon Porter
David Dixon Porter 1813-91, American admiral, b. Chester, Pa.; son of David Porter . He served under his father in the Mexican navy before he was appointed (1829) midshipman in the U.S. navy. He held his first command, the Spitfire, in the Mexican War. From 1850 to 1854, Porter, on leave, comman...
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Hyman George Rickover
Hyman George Rickover 1900-1986, American admiral, b. Russia. In World War II he served as head of the electrical section of the navy's Bureau of Ships. After the war he was assigned (1946) to the atomic submarine project at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and helped convince the navy that nuclear sea power was ...
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Jean François Darlan
Jean François Darlan , 1881-1942, French admiral. A career naval officer, he became commander of the French navy in 1939 and joined the Vichy government (see under Vichy ) in 1940 as minister of the navy. After the fall of Pierre Laval , Darlan was made (Feb., 1941) vice premier, foreign mi...
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Luis Carrero Blanco
Luis Carrero Blanco , 1903-73, Spanish statesman and naval officer. Following the Spanish civil war, during which he served in the Nationalist navy, he became chief of naval operations on the admiralty staff and one of Francisco Franco's intimate collaborators. In 1951 he was appointed ministerial u...
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Neil Alden Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong 1930-, American astronaut, b. Wapakoneta, Ohio, grad. Purdue Univ. A U.S. Navy fighter pilot during the Korean War, Armstrong became a test pilot for what was then the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics in 1955. In 1962, already a veteran of the X-15, Armstrong became a...
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John Nance Garner
John Nance Garner 1868-1967, Vice President of the United States (1933-41), b. Red River co., Tex. A lawyer, he served (1898-1902) in the Texas legislature and then (1902) was elected to Congress. His senior standing made him (1921) the ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways and Means, an...
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Conwy Lloyd Morgan
Conwy Lloyd Morgan 1852-1936, English psychologist. Professor of zoology at University College, Bristol (1887-1909), he served as first vice chancellor of the Univ. of Bristol (1909-10) and was professor of psychology and ethics until his retirement in 1919. He was one of the founders of animal psy...
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson 1908-73, 36th President of the United States (1963-69), b. near Stonewall, Tex.
Early Life
Born into a farm family, he graduated (1930) from Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now Southwest Texas State Univ.), in San Marcos. He taught in a Houston high school be...
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