An additional squadron, the 28th, was activated on 1 September 1922 at Nichols Field, and the group, now at Clark Field, was redesignated the 4th Composite Group on 2 December 1922.

PDAF's materiel was centrally located in the Philippine Air Depot at Nichols Field, easily targeted from the air and highly inflammable.

Clagett immediately undertook an administrative " shakeup " of the existing organization, marginalized Richards, relieved Churchill of command of the 4th Composite Group ( he retained the position of base commander at Nichols Field ), created new channels of command, and because of a lack of qualified staff officers, drew senior ( but administratively untrained ) officers from the squadrons to fill his staff.

In July, the P-40s became operational, but Nichols Field was closed to replace its east-west runway with one made of concrete, and to regrade the north-south runway, both measures taken to correct drainage deficiencies that made the entire field inoperable in the wet season.

A shipment of 24 crated P-40Es arrived in Manila by freighter on 25 November, the first of those intended for the 35th Pursuit Group, and were trucked to the Philippine Air Depot at Nichols Field for assembly.

In August and October 1941, the War department allocated US $ 9, 273, 000 to construct and improve airfields, most of which was spent constructing a concrete runway at Nichols Field ( the only hard-surfaced runway in the Philippines ), and adding and extending graded strips at Clark Field, with the rest going to the auxiliary fields.

Although all the interceptions failed, Iba Field was then substituted as a target in place of Nichols ( where it was assumed that two squadrons of B-17s had dispersed ) to deal with the new interceptor threat.

*** 17th Pursuit Squadron ( Nichols Field )

*** 21st Pursuit Squadron ( attached, Nichols Field )

* 2nd Observation Squadron ( Nichols Field, 2 O-46A, 3 O-49, 11 O-52 )

Most of the aircraft of the FEAF were based at either Clark Field or Nichols Field.

Nichols Field later became the headquarters of the Philippine Air Force.

Nowadays, the name Nichols or Nichols Field ( along with Villamor ) is used as an accepted nickname for the area surrounding it.

The 20th ABG was based at Nichols Field, in the Philippines.

On April 12, B-25s hit the harbor and shipping at Cebu, Cebu Island while B-17s carried out single-bomber strikes against Cebu harbor and Nichols Field on Luzon.

Writing about Large Field Array in Art in America, Matthew Guy Nichols wrote:

In 1948, following Philippine independence, the airport was moved to its current site adjacent to the Villamor Airbase, which was then called Nichols Field.

He was General Wainwright ’ s Air Officer, Provost Marshall and photography officer for Clark and Nichols Field in the Philippines.

With its origins going back almost a century to 1912, the command was officially established on 6 May 1941 as the Philippine Department Air Force at Nichols Field, Luzon, Philippines.

In addition to Clark Field, additional airfields at Kindley Field on Corregidor in Manila Bay ( Opened September 1922 ), and one at Camp Nichols ( Nichols Field, 1920 ) were constructed.

End Gene Raesz, who broke a hand in the Owl's game with LSU, was back working out with Rice Monday, and John Nichols, sophomore guard, moved back into action after a week's idleness with an ankle injury.

A public memorial was held on 27 September 2004 at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, near San Diego, California ; guest speakers included James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, Leslie Orgel, Terry Sejnowski, his son Michael Crick, and his youngest daughter Jacqueline Nichols.

The only one I recognized was the girl playing Nichelle Nichols.

This film was financed by Archibald MacLeish, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Lillian Hellman, Luise Rainer, Dudley Nichols, Franchot Tone and other Hollywood movie stars, moguls, and writers who composed a group known as the Contemporary Historians.

Further spurring Kansas City's growth was the opening of the innovative Country Club Plaza development by J. C. Nichols in 1925 as part of his Country Club District plan.

The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids was established in 1964 by Ross Nichols.

Forensic evidence quickly linked McVeigh and Terry Nichols to the attack ; Nichols was arrested, and within days both were charged.

McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, and Nichols was sentenced to life in prison.

Michael and Lori Fortier testified against McVeigh and Nichols ; Michael was sentenced to 12 years in prison for failing to warn the U. S. government, and Lori received immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony.

After a nine-hour interrogation, Terry Nichols was formally held in federal custody until his trial.

On April 25, 1995, James Nichols was also arrested, but he was released after 32 days due to lack of evidence.

In March 2005, FBI investigators, acting on a tip, searched a buried crawl space in Nichols ' former house and found additional explosives missed in the preliminary search after Nichols was arrested.

In 2009 Nichols was being held in the ADX Florence Federal Prison.

That same year, Simon and Garfunkel contributed heavily to the soundtrack to Mike Nichols ' film The Graduate, which was released on January 21, 1968, and instantly rose to No. 1 as an album.

Nichols begged him for more but Simon, who was touring constantly, told him he didn't have the time.

Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, referred to Kelley as her " sassy gentleman friend "; the friendship between the African-American Nichols and Southern Kelley was a real-life demonstration of the message Roddenberry hoped to convey through Star Trek.

Pyotr Lebedev was first to successfully demonstrate light pressure, which he did in 1899 with a torsional balance ; Ernest Nichols and Gordon Hull conducted a similar independent experiment in 1901 using a Nichols radiometer.

Around this time, McVeigh and Nichols also began making bulk purchases of ammonium nitrate, an agricultural fertilizer, for resale to survivalists, since rumors were circulating that the government was preparing to ban it.

In addition to McVeigh, Terry Nichols was convicted and sentenced in federal court to life in prison for his role in the crime.

The chief conspirators, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, met in 1988 at Fort Benning during basic training for the U. S. Army.

* October 1 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater – Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.

The museum's Native Sons Gallery honors U. S. congressman William Flynt Nichols, U. S. Army Lieutenant General James W. Crysel, whose 33-year military career included receiving the Distinguished Service Medal, and singer and actor Jim Nabors, a 1947 graduate of Sylacauga High School.

* William Flynt Nichols, former U. S. Congressman.

Failure of the Mississippi Highway 25 N / U. S. Route 45 S bridge over the Tombigbee River relief ( Big Nichols Creek )/ Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in Aberdeen, Mississippi during the March 1955 floods.

* Matthias H. Nichols – a U. S. Representative from Ohio

Arrangements were made with the oxygen-producing plant in Manila, which supplied the U. S. Navy's shipyard at Cavite, to buy any surplus for pursuit units, but output was so small that only the squadron at Nichols ( which reopened on 17 October ) could be supplied, and on a limited basis.

The 1910 U. S. Census shows him as the fourth of seven children living with his widowed mother, Mary Nichols, in Sessums Township, just outside of Starkville.

An alumnus of Nichols School in Buffalo, New York and a 1940 graduate of Brown University, Hunt during World War II served in the U. S. Navy on the destroyer USS Mayo, United States Army Air Forces, and finally, the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) which he worked for in China.

Stratford is served by several major highways, including Interstate 95 ( Connecticut Turnpike ), U. S. Route 1 ( Boston Post Road ) ( Boston Avenue and Barnum Avenue ), the Merritt Parkway ( Route 15 ), Route 108 ( Nichols Avenue ), Route 110 ( East Main Street and River Road ), Route 113 ( Lordship Boulevard and Main Street ), and Route 130 ( Stratford Avenue and Ferry Boulevard ).

Nichols had never liked farm life, and in 1988, at the age of 33, he tried to escape it by enlisting in the U. S. Army.

U. S. District Court Judge Richard P. Matsch then had the option of giving Nichols life in prison with or without the possibility of parole.

Judge Taylor called Nichols a terrorist and said " No American citizen has ever brought this kind of devastation ; you are in U. S. history the No. 1 mass murderer in all of U. S. history " and sentenced Nichols to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.

* John Conover Nichols, former U. S. Representative from Oklahoma

The 21 mile long mostly two-lane, minor arterial road loosely follows the ridgeline of the eastern Santa Monica Mountains and the Hollywood Hills, connecting two sections of U. S. Route 101, and crossing Sepulveda Boulevard, Beverly Glen Boulevard, Coldwater Canyon, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Nichols Canyon Road and Outpost Drive.

Failure of the Mississippi Highway 25 N / U. S. Route 45 S bridge over the Tombigbee River relief ( Big Nichols Creek )/ Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway in Aberdeen, Mississippi during the March 1955 floods.

It is awarded to researchers and activists who, through their research and / or production work, have made significant contributions to the study and practice of democratic communication .” Along with John Nichols, McChesney was awarded the U. S. Newspaper Guild ’ s 2010 Herbert Block Freedom Award ; according to the Guild ’ s Executive Council, “ the two of you have done more for press freedom than anyone.

The bombing is the worst domestic terrorist incident in U. S. history, and the investigation resulted in the arrests of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols

John Nichols Dalton ( July 11, 1931July 30, 1986 ) was the 63rd Governor of the U. S. state of Virginia from 1978 to 1982.