Obituaries

[XBe02Drvr]

 

[Frog]

Léon Gautier, last survivor of the 177 Free French Commandos that landed on D-Day at Ouistreham has died, aged 100.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

 

[Airframes]

 

[le_steph40]

 

[Snautzer01]

 

[fubar57]

 

[Totalize]

 

[Frog]

https://www.ouest-france.fr/d-day/leon-gautier-le-dernier-francais-du-d-day-a-repris-le-large-il-etait-lhumilite-incarnee-a0c10376-1998-11ee-b34a-b36553860272

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[SaparotRob]

https://www.ouest-france.fr/d-day/leon-gautier-le-dernier-francais-du-d-day-a-repris-le-large-il-etait-lhumilite-incarnee-a0c10376-1998-11ee-b34a-b36553860272

Took me awhile to get the gist of it.

 

[ARTESH]

 

[MiTasol]

Thank goodness for archive.md - I was able to read it free of all the spyware

 

[MiTasol]

This guy served as a U.S. Army Air Corps weatherman in World War II but you use his inventions every day. He is the oldest-ever recipient of a Nobel Prize.

John Goodenough - Honorary Unsubscribe

"Not knowing either the full potential of our invention or any other option, we signed our rights away."

www.honoraryunsubscribe.com

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

This guy served as a U.S. Army Air Corps weatherman in World War II but you use his inventions every day. He is the oldest-ever recipient of a Nobel Prize.

John Goodenough - Honorary Unsubscribe

"Not knowing either the full potential of our invention or any other option, we signed our rights away."

www.honoraryunsubscribe.com

 

[MiTasol]

another USAAF weatherman. Quote Growing up in New York City, Field went to school to be an optometrist, but World War II intervened: he served as a meteorologist with the U.S. Army Air Corps, flying over German-occupied France to get on-the-spot weather observations before bombers followed.

Frank Field - Honorary Unsubscribe

Field was the first professional meteorologist to do weather reports on New York television, and the first to use weather radar.

www.honoraryunsubscribe.com

 

[Vic Balshaw]

 

[SaparotRob]

another USAAF weatherman. Quote Growing up in New York City, Field went to school to be an optometrist, but World War II intervened: he served as a meteorologist with the U.S. Army Air Corps, flying over German-occupied France to get on-the-spot weather observations before bombers followed.

Frank Field - Honorary Unsubscribe

Field was the first professional meteorologist to do weather reports on New York television, and the first to use weather radar.

www.honoraryunsubscribe.com

For quite a few years, I watched his reports just about every day. When Johnny Carson's Tonight Show was broadcast from New York City, Mr. Carson always called Frank Field "NBC's cracked meteorologist".

 

[fubar57]

 

[Wurger]