In 1984, Pearce and his daughter wrote the song “We Love Allentown” in response to Billy Joel’s “Allentown.” It’s been performed by the Allentown Band and Allentown Symphony Orchestra.

The aircraft is painted in a 1944 era ‘Day Fighter’ scheme In particular it remembers a Hawker Typhoon of 257 Squadron, FM-G. On D-Day the Hawker was flown by Pilot Officer Denzel Jenkins.

The statue of Margaret is one of 10 8ft-tall (2.4m) silhouettes of women who had served during WW2 which have gone on display. Typhoon and Atlas aircraft, crewed only by women, took part in a ...

For a while after the end of World War II, Japan used women’s names for ... but also by their Asian names. Typhoon No. 10, which has its “eye” wide open off Amami-Oshima island, is called ...