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John H. Ross
John Henry Ross (June 8, 1918 – August 9, 2013) was a decorated World War II pilot who flew 96 missions for the 22nd Reconnaissance Squadron as part of the 7th Reconnaissance Group in the 8th Air Force. Ross flew the Lockheed P-38 Lightning as a photo-recon pilot out of RAF Mount Farm in England during the war. He received 11 medals and 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses. Ross' missions, which were integral to Allied victory at the Battle of the Bulge are detailed in the book, ''Eyes of the Eighth: A Story of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, 1942-1945''. On three separate missions, Ross' plane was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea. He also flew reconnaissance for Operation Aphrodite missions, which utilized radio-controlled bombers as PGM. Additional to reconnaissance missions to plot bombing runs, he also flew missions to photograph damage assessment. One of his photographs of the Cologne Cathedral still standing amongst the rubble is credited to Ross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleman, Oklahoma
Coleman is a small unincorporated area, unincorporated community and census-designated place in Johnston County, Oklahoma, Johnston County, Oklahoma, United States. The town was previously known as Ego, which was the name assigned to the post office when it was established in 1895.Shirk, p.70. The post office name was officially changed to "Coleman" on September 10, 1910 due to a tornado that destroyed the town.Shirk, p.50. The Census Bureau defined a census-designated place (CDP) for Coleman in 2015; the 2010 population within the 2015 CDP boundary is 319 and contains 154 housing units. Coleman has its own schooling system and a bank plus 2 general stores. Demographics Notable person *John H. Ross (WWII pilot), John H. Ross, World War II pilot awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States), Distinguished Flying Cross twice, and subject of the documentary film ''John Ross: American'' References Sources * Shirk, George H. ''Oklahoma Place Names''. Norman, Oklahoma: Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precision-guided Munition
A precision-guided munition (PGM, smart weapon, smart munition, smart bomb) is a guided munition intended to precisely hit a specific target, to minimize collateral damage and increase lethality against intended targets. During the First Gulf War guided munitions accounted for only 9% of weapons fired, but accounted for 75% of all successful hits. Despite guided weapons generally being used on more difficult targets, they were still 35 times more likely to destroy their targets per weapon dropped. Because the damage effects of explosive weapons decrease with distance due to an inverse cube law, even modest improvements in accuracy (hence reduction in miss distance) enable a target to be attacked with fewer or smaller bombs. Thus, even if some guided bombs miss, fewer air crews are put at risk and the harm to civilians and the amount of collateral damage may be reduced. The advent of precision-guided munitions resulted in the renaming of older, low-technology, bombs as "ungu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadwood (TV Series)
''Deadwood'' is an American western (genre), Western television series that aired on the premium television, premium cable television, cable network HBO from March 21, 2004, to August 27, 2006, spanning List of Deadwood episodes, three seasons and 36 episodes. The series is set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before and after the area's annexation by the Dakota Territory, and charts Deadwood's growth from camp to town. The show was created, produced, and largely written by David Milch. ''Deadwood'' features a large ensemble cast headed by Timothy Olyphant and Ian McShane, playing the real-life Deadwood residents Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen, respectively. Many other historical figures appear as characters, including George Crook, Wyatt Earp, E. B. Farnum, George Hearst, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Sol Star, A. W. Merrick, Jack McCall, and Charlie Utter. The plot lines involving these characters include historical truths as well as substantial fictional elements. Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garret Dillahunt
Garret Lee Dillahunt (born November 24, 1964) is an American actor. He is best known for his work in television, including the roles Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom ''Raising Hope'', for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Jack McCall and Francis Wolcott in '' Deadwood'', and John Dorie in '' Fear the Walking Dead'' (2018–2021). He has also appeared in ''The 4400'', '' ER'', '' Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'', '' Justified'', and ''The Mindy Project'' (2015–2017). He starred in the Amazon Studios drama series '' Hand of God'' (2014–2017). In film, Dillahunt has played supporting roles in ''No Country for Old Men'', ''The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'', ''Winter's Bone'', ''Looper'', and '' 12 Years a Slave''. Early life and education Dillahunt was born in Castro Valley, California, and grew up in Selah, Washington. He was born into a family of three boys, with two brothers: Bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Beaver
James Norman Beaver Jr. (born August 12, 1950) is an American actor, writer, and film historian. He is most familiar to worldwide audiences as Bobby Singer in ''Supernatural''. He also played Whitney Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama series '' Deadwood'', which brought him acclaim and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Ensemble Acting, and Sheriff Shelby Parlow on the FX series '' Justified''. His memoir ''Life's That Way'' was published in April 2009. Early life Beaver was born in Laramie, Wyoming, the son of Dorothy Adell (''née'' Crawford) (1928-2019) and James Norman Beaver (1924–2004), a minister. His father was of English and French heritage; the family name was originally de Beauvoir, and Beaver is a distant cousin of author and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir and Pennsylvania governor General James A. Beaver. Beaver's mother has Cherokee, German, and Scottish ancestry, and is a descendant of three-time U.S. Attorney General John J. Crittenden. Although h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AMVETS
American Veterans (AMVETS) is a non-partisan, volunteer-led organization formed by World War II veterans of the United States military. It advocates for its members as well as for causes that its members deem helpful to the nation at large. The group holds a Federal charter under Title 36 of the United States Code. It is a 501(c)19 organization. History Harold Russell, the handless World War II veteran and Academy Award winner for ''The Best Years of Our Lives'', served three terms as National Commander in the 1950s. As head of AMVETS, Russell wrote to President Harry S. Truman in 1951 supporting his decision to dismiss General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War. Russell's telegram to Truman cited MacArthur's "repeated insubordination in violation of basic American principles governing civil versus military authority." His telegram said those were "obvious grounds" to relieve MacArthur. Erle Cocke Jr., commander of the American Legion, said that he was "shocked by the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daytona Beach, Florida
Daytona Beach, or simply Daytona, is a coastal Resort town, resort-city in east-central Florida. Located on the eastern edge of Volusia County, Florida, Volusia County near the East Coast of the United States, Atlantic coastline, its population was 72,647 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Daytona Beach is approximately northeast of Orlando, Florida, Orlando, southeast of Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville, and northwest of Miami. It is part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area which has a population of about 600,000 and is also a principal city of the Fun Coast region of Florida. Daytona Beach is historically known for its beach, where the hard-packed sand allows motorized vehicles on the beach in restricted areas. This hard-packed sand made Daytona Beach a mecca for motorsports, and the old Daytona Beach and Road Course hosted races for over 50 years. This was replaced in 1959 by Daytona International Speedway. The city is also the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of both natural factors (severe drought) and manmade factors (a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent aeolian processes, wind erosion, most notably the destruction of the natural topsoil by settlers in the region). The drought came in three waves: 1934–35 North American drought, 1934, 1936, and 1939–1940, but some regions of the High Plains (United States), High Plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years. The Dust Bowl has been the subject of many cultural works, notably the novel ''The Grapes of Wrath'' (1939) by John Steinbeck, the folk music of Woody Guthrie, and photographs depicting the conditions of migrants by Dorothea Lange, particularly the ''Migrant Mother'', taken in 1936. Geographic characteristics and early history With insuffic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worker Studio
Worker Studio is an American animation and visual effects company based in Centennial, Colorado, founded in 2009 by Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot. The company has provided visual effects for a number of short films including Angela Bettis, Angela Bettis' segment ''E is for Exterminate'' in the horror anthology film The ABCs of Death. In 2013, the studio began developing an animated adaptation of Phil Hartman, Phil Hartman's comedy album, ''Phil Hartman's Flat TV'', which was posthumously released in 2002 after he performed and recorded it in 1978. The studio is also the production company behind the animated documentary ''John Ross: American'', based on the life of World War II pilot John H. Ross. Former Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Artist Barry Kooser joined the studio as a partner and Chief Creative Officer until 2015. Hemschoot and Kooser met while teaching animation at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. In 2017, the studio released an original animated, stop motio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Bridgers
Sean MacKenzie Bridgers (born March 15, 1968) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer, known for his role as Johnny Burns on the HBO series '' Deadwood'' and on the SundanceTV original series ''Rectify'' as Trey Willis. Additional to many roles in television and film since 1991, Bridgers received acclaim and awards for the independent film ''Paradise Falls'', which he wrote and produced. He received praise for his lead role in Lucky McKee's horror film '' The Woman'' and another Moderncine film, '' Jug Face'', as well as notable roles in ''Sweet Home Alabama'' and ''Nell''. He played Old Nick in the 2015 film ''Room''. Personal life Bridgers was born in 1968 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Ben and Sue Ellen Bridgers. Ben was the tribal attorney for the Cherokee Indian tribe and published a memoir and books of poetry. Sue Ellen Bridgers is a novelist with seven published novels. He graduated from St. Andrew's-Sewanee School and Western Carolina University. In interv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot
Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot (born 1972, Aurora, Colorado) is a Film director, director, animator and has held a variety of roles as a Visual effects, visual effects artist in major Cinema of the United States, Hollywood films. Since 1996, Hemschoot has worked on films such as ''Mars Attacks!'', ''What Dreams May Come (film), What Dreams May Come'', ''The Matrix'', ''Hollow Man'', ''Black Hawk Down (film), Black Hawk Down'', ''Minority Report (film), Minority Report'' and ''National Treasure (film), National Treasure''. He was lead animator on the films ''Bless the Child'' and ''Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'', which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, Best Visual Effects at the 76th Academy Awards. Currently, he is CEO at the animation studio he founded, Worker Studio, and is also a partner in the live action production company, Travelin' Productions. Early life and education Hemschoot was raised in Parker, Colorado, but moved to California, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
