Two Lions players have won Victoria Crosses. Friends Robert Johnston and Tom Crean, who toured South Africa in 1896, won VCs ...

Holy Cross College, Gampaha sprinter Tharani Nirmina and Gamini National School Bentara sprinter Chenadi Dewhara are among ...

Over 400 players from 254 teams were set to participate in the Yeti All-Island Inter-Schools Individual/Team Tennis ...

Major Robert Welk Johnson, U.S. Air Force, Retired It is with heavy hearts we announce the passing of Bob Johnson. Bob passed ...

Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw Field Marshal K M Cariappa Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh The three highest-ranking ...

It was supposed to be a routine mission. On April 10, 1944, Maj. Donald K. Willis, flying with the 55th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, was tasked with escorting an Allied bombing run on a ...

A helicopter pilot from RAF Benson in Oxfordshire has become the first woman to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the MoD has revealed. Bristol-born Michelle Goodman, 31, was honoured after ...

Johnson also recognized the first African-American military aviator to fly in combat, Eugene J. Bullard, who served with France’s Lafayette Flying Corps during World War I.

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During a ceremony at the Rock Island Arsenal, Lt. Gen. Michael Tucker, First Army commanding general, pinned the Distinguished Flying Cross on the chest of the now 92-year-old Bailey to the ...

In September 1942, he escaped unharmed from the wreckage of a Bristol Blenheim plane that crashed on take-off while giving him a lift to pick up his Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) from the King.

Flying over France, Britain and Italy in World War II, Mr. Hemingway was shot down four times between 1940 and 1945. He received Britain’s Distinguished Flying Cross in July 1941 for downing and ...