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Fighter and aces
Flying a U. S. Navy F-4J Phantom II of Fighter Squadron 96 ( VF-96 ) off of, Lieutenants Randy " Duke " Cunningham ( pilot ) and William " Irish " Driscoll ( radar intercept officer ) shoot down three MiG-17 fighters, becoming the U. S. Navys only aces of the Vietnam War.
One of the greatest " aces " of World War I, Manfred von Richthofen ( the Red Baron ), wrote in his book The Red Fighter Pilot, " The great thing in air fighting is that the decisive factor does not lie in trick flying but solely in the personal ability and energy of the aviator.
Above the War Fronts: the British Two-seater Bomber Pilot and Observer Aces, the British Two-seater Fighter Observer Aces, and the Belgian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Fighter aces, 1914-1918: Volume 4 of Fighting Airmen of WWI Series: Volume 4 of Air Aces of WWI.
The fighters, however, received the most attention in the annals of military aviation, since it produced high-scoring " aces " such as Manfred von Richthofen, popularly known in English as " The Red Baron " ( in Germany, he was known as " der Rote Kampfflieger " Air Fighter ), Lothar von Richthofen, Ernst Udet, Hermann Göring, Oswald Boelcke, Werner Voss, and Max Immelmann ( the first airman to win the Pour le Mérite, Imperial Germany's highest decoration for gallantry, as a result of which the decoration became popularly known as the " Blue Max ").
Steinhoff initially acted as a de facto recruiting officer, persuading a number of veteran Luftwaffe aces to join the unit-some coming out of the Fighter Pilot's Rest Home at Bad Wiessee to do so.
It was the unit of the top three scoring Fighter aces of all time, Erich Hartmann, Gerhard Barkhorn and Günther Rall.

Fighter and appeared
On the heels of the Griffin / Bonnar finale, a second season of The Ultimate Fighter launched in August 2005, and two more seasons appeared in 2006.
As a result, there are numerous characters who have appeared throughout the history of the franchise that can be considered roughly analogous to the Fighter.
A port of the game, as well as that of Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution under the budget-priced " Greatest Hits " label, appeared on the Sony PlayStation 2 in 2002 and 2003, respectively.
Paulsen has appeared in video games such as Doom 3 and Clay Fighter 6 1 / 3.
His first Valiant work appeared in Magnus, Robot Fighter # 1 ( May, 1991 ), in which he inked Art Nichols ' artwork from Jim Shooter's script.
Vandenberg lives in California, where he has appeared in such movies as Pit Fighter and Mortal Kombat.
Sissaouri also appeared on season 12 of The Ultimate Fighter as Georges St. Pierre's wrestling coach.
Mobichan has appeared in many console games released by Capcom during the early 1990s as a mode select cursor such as in the Super NES version of the original Street Fighter II.
She first appeared in Richard Dragon, Kung Fu Fighter as an antagonist of Richard Dragon.
Godzilla was summoned from Monster Island in a few of the episodes of the television series Zone Fighter, to assist the giant superhero, specifically the first episode that Godzilla appeared in.
Others attracted Hollywood stars such as Isaac Hayes, noted R & B singer / songwriter and performer ( Shaft ), who appeared in Johnny Mnemonic: The Interactive Action Movie, Dana Plato ( Diff ' rent Strokes, cast for Night Trap ), Debbie Harry ( lead singer of Blondie hired for Double Switch ), and Ron Stein ( fight coordinator of Rocky and Raging Bull, who was hired as director for Sega's boxing game Prize Fighter ).
* Bruce Li appeared in the documentary Top Fighter that had a big segment about him and his movies.
This game appeared in the " Street Fighter II Boom ", so, as with many similar games released around the same time, some of the characters take inspiration from the Street Fighter game series.
Windsor then appeared on such programs as Maverick ( in the episodes " The Quick and the Dead " with James Garner and " Epitaph for a Gambler " with Jack Kelly ), Bat Masterson ( in " The Fighter ") opposite Gene Barry, Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr, The Incredible Hulk, General Hospital, Murder, She Wrote, Rawhide (" Incident on the Edge of Madness "), and Salem's Lot.
Most recently, he appeared in the French-Canadian co-production Atomic Betty, voiced the characters Hugo and Q in the video game Street Fighter III 3rd Strike and narrated the animated bible TV series Friends and Heroes.
" The Fighter " appeared in several Australian television advertisements, including one for popular primetime show Smallville.
This genre first appeared in 1976 with the release of Sega's Heavyweight Boxing and later became a phenomenon, particularly in the arcades, with the release of Street Fighter II.
He also appeared as Gen in 2009's Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

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Fighter command, it has all first-line combat assets under its control-fighter, attack and reconnaissance aircraft ; V FAE ( V Força Aérea )-responsible for transport missions.
According to the document the military of the Republic of Bulgaria should include two mechanized brigades, four regiments ( Logistics, Artillery, Engineering, SpecOps ), four battalions ( Reconnaissance, Mechanized, NBC, PsyOps ) in the Land Forces ; Fighter base, helicopter base, SAM air defense brigade and Air force training base in the Air Force ; and two naval bases in the Navy.
Förster-Nietzsche introduced Steiner into the presence of the catatonic philosopher ; Steiner, deeply moved, subsequently wrote the book Friedrich Nietzsche, Fighter for Freedom.
Two F-16 fighter jets from the 121st Fighter Squadron of the D. C. Air National Guard were scrambled and ordered to intercept Flight 93 ; the pilots intended to ram it since they did not have time to arm the jets.
Numerous other game developers tried to imitate Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombats financial success with similar games ; Capcom USA took unsuccessful legal action against Data East Corp. over the arcade game Fighter's History.
Virtua Fighter 5 lacked an online mode but still achieved success both on home consoles and in arcades ; players practiced at home and went to arcades to compete face-to-face with opponents.
A system can achieve a very effective depth of field if layers with rasters are combined ; Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, ActRaiser, and Street Fighter II used this effect well.
The Maquis also used German weapons captured throughout the occupation, the MP40 being very common ; a French Resistance Fighter is quoted saying, " They are as common as hookers on the streets of Paris, and they get about as much action.
Liddell Hart says British Fighter Command lost 106 aircraft dogfighting over Dunkirk, and the Luftwaffe lost about 135 – some of which were shot down by the French Navy and the Royal Navy ; but MacDonald says the British lost 177 aircraft and the Germans lost 240.
There are three enemies in all: the Shellcreeper, which simply walks around ; the Sidestepper, which requires two hits to flip over ; and the Fighter Fly, which moves by jumping and can only be flipped when it is touching a platform.
* 44th Pursuit ( later Fighter ) Squadron, 12 – 27 December 1941 ; 25 January-23 June 1942
* 46th Pursuit ( later Fighter ) Squadron, 1 December 1940 – 6 February 1942 ; 17 February – 13 October 1944
* 78th Pursuit ( Later Fighter ) Squadron, 1 February 1940 – 9 December 1941 ; 9 February – 15 October 1946
UFC 100 was a massive success garnering 1. 7 million buys under the drawing power of former NCAA wrestling champion and current WWE superstar Brock Lesnar and his rematch with former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir, Canadian superstar Georges St-Pierre going head-to-head with Brazilian knockout artist Thiago Alves, and Pride legend Dan Henderson opposing British middleweight Michael Bisping ; rival coaches on The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom.
* John Stark, Freedom Fighter ; by Robert P. Richmond.
* The Fighter Collection at Duxford are restoring another Swedish J 11 to fly-formerly Fv2542 ; now civil-registered as G-CBLS.
* USAF Fighter Weapons School, 1 January-1 September 1966 ; 30 December 1981 – Present
The U. S. Air Force sent several sorties of F-16's from the 34th Fighter Squadron, and 522nd Fighter Squadron into Iraq to fly night missions in support of Operation Desert Fox ; they were based at Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base, Kuwait.
She was a member of the company's in-house jazz band Alph Lyla, which played Capcom video game music including pieces written by Shimomura ; she performed live twice with the group, playing a bell during " Chun-Li's Theme " from Street Fighter II.
In 2002 she wrote the score for Kingdom Hearts, which she has said is the most " special " soundtrack to her, as well as a turning point in her career ; she named the soundtracks to Street Fighter II and Super Mario RPG as the other two significant points in her life as a composer.
Between May 1 and July 12, 1944, the 427th Night Fighter Squadron trained at Meadows Field ; the 549th Night Fighter Squadron between July and October 1944.

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