1940\'s WWII International Order Of Characters Founding Name Log Aviation History
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1940\'s WWII International Order Of Characters Founding Name Log Aviation History:
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1940\'s WWII International Order Of Characters Founding Name Log Aviation History
Over 386 NamesListed WWII Pilots who were members\"Auckland Order of Characters\" in WWIIThis is the original Founders Log, before it was called:International Order Of Characters
The International Order of Characters is an aviation-oriented educational foundation which traces it’s roots to the grim early days of World War Two in the South Pacific.
It was there that a young USAAF flight surgeon, Captain James E. Crane, came up with the idea of organizing a group of battle- weary American and Allied pilots under his care into a fraternal order to be called the International Order of Characters. Each of the members, upon induction, received a private nickname known only to the other members of the Order. By 1943, call-signs such as “The Sky”, “Spanish John”, “Little Isadore”, “Harry The Horse”, “Society Max” were being heard in the sky over Guadalcanal and the neighboring islands. The “IOC”, which competed with another legendary organization, the “Guadalcanal Rod and Gun Club”, grew to nearly one thousand members before the war moved on towards Japan, and Major Crane was reassigned to military hospitals in the United States.Notable members
- Douglas Bader
- Charles Bassett,Boom Boom
- Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld,HRH The Lion
- Eric Brown,Winkle
- Scott Crossfield,Rocket
- Bill Dana,Jose
- Eugene P. Deatrick,Bismark
- Jimmy Doolittle
- George J. Dufek,Penguin
- Steve Fossett,Cucumber
- Gabby Gabreski,Gabby
- Adolf Galland,The Red Knight
- Jerauld R. Gentry,Flying Bathtub
- Arthur Godfrey,Bunkie
- Barry Goldwater,Gold Dust
- Richard P. Hallion,Memory Bank
- Bob Hoover,Mustang
- Dietrich Hrabak
- Charles H. Kaman,Pres. Kaman Aircraft
- Joseph Kittinger,The Jump
- William J. Knight,Lickety Split
- Clay Lacy,Racey
- Bill Lear,King Lear
- Tony LeVier,Lightning
- James McDivitt,Gemini Cricket
- Dick Merrill,Old Ping Pong Balls
- Robin Olds,Phantom
- Günther Rall
- Hanna Reitsch,Supersonic Sue
- Robert Rushworth,North Star
- Burt Rutan[13]
- Herman Salmon,Fish
- Walter Schirra, Jr.,Sky Ray
- Robert Lee Scott, Jr.,Shoe Clerk
- Igor Sikorsky,Winged S
- Johannes Steinhoff
- Robert L. Stephens,The Silver Fox II
- Kenneth L. Tallman,Iron Wind
- Paul Tibbets,Big Bang
- Robert Stanford Tuck,Spitfire
- Roscoe Turner,The Roar
- Joseph Walker,Mach 7
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1940\'s WWII International Order Of Characters Founding Name Log Aviation History:
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