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Vivien Leigh? weird
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Since this one is answered let me pose another academy award related one. Who is the only man to have won a rodeo world championship as well as an academy award?
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Ben Johnson.
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Ding, ding, ding.
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all from memory. If I remember he is from Oklahoma as well.
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Yes he is.
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Yoda
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Who technically was not allowed to fly combat missions but just do gunnery instruction. But on a number of occasions he flew over Europe as an "observer".
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Luke Skywalker
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Hemingway?????
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Since there are a lot of Air Force guys here, here is a new trivia question for you. Who has earned the most Distingushed Service Crosses? I'll give you a hint, I do mean DSC and not DFC.
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Gable entered the service and was a gunnery instructor. Due to his high profile he was ordered not to fly outside England's airspace as they worried what it would look like if here were captured or killed over occupied territory. But it is documented that you could say he "snuck" onto several bombing raid flights as an observer. Probably fired on German aircraft too, but wat I've seen isn't clear on that.
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I just looked him up on Wikipedia. I knew the basics about his achievements - but the details are insane!! I lost count of how many times he cheated death. Impressive fellow!
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Mike - another of Rickenbacker's "he cheated death" events. He just barely survived a commercial DC-3 crash in 1941. Horribly injured and burned, and actually left for dead by the hospital team.
But he made it.
In 1947 he flew an Eastern Airlines DC-3 into Bradley Airport (Hartford/Springfield) - the first commercial passenger flight to that field.
But he made it.
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In 1947 he flew an Eastern Airlines DC-3 into Bradley Airport (Hartford/Springfield) - the first commercial passenger flight to that field.
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