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Innovative and Daring: The Saga of Pappy Dunn Having served in WW1 as an airplane mechanic, he taught himself to fly on his own time and then re-enlisted, becoming part of the TopHatters fighter squadron in 1923. He served 21...
Outside the Box Thinker/Entrepreneur “The Incubator Doctor” Taking his idea from chicken farmers of the time, Couney became instrumental in saving the lives of premature babies born during the early 1900s. Typically the babies were thought to be genetic...
When John Capes showed up back in England after being missing for over 18 months, his explanation was not believed and was not proven until a decade after his death in 1985. Sailing aboard the HMS Perseus a British submarine...
Survived a Fall from 18,000 feet with no parachute As the crew of the Lancaster bomber Werewolf flew their plane deeper into enemy territory in the dead of night, they were being stalked by a Ju-88 nightfighter. The German plane...
Saved more than 200 wounded men’s lives while wounded on D-Day When Woodson and his fellow men landed in Normandy on D-Day, their boat hit a mine and drifted til it was hit by an artillery shell. Wounded in the...
Denise Bloch: Tortured and shot in the back of the neck in Ravensbruck Concentration camp Noor Khan: Tortured for codes, put in solitary confinement, beaten to death Ravensbruck Prison Yolande Beekman: Beaten and taken to Dachau Concentration camp and shot...
