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From: jem3@pyuxf.cc.bellcore.com (John E McKillop)
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Subject: ERROR CORRECTIONS
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Date: 20 Jun 91 01:55:31 GMT
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From: jem3@pyuxf.cc.bellcore.com (John E McKillop)

I posted a message last week identifying some aviation anniversaries and
have received several comments pertaining to two items. The two items 
are:

June 18, 1911: H. Clyde Balsey of the Lafayette Escadrille is shot down 
near Verdun, France, the first American-born aviator shot down in World 
War I.

June 28, 1946: The first V-2 rocket is launched from White Sands
Proving Grounds, New Mexico. It rises to an altitude of 67 miles.

As I have posted it, I killed poor Clyde 3 years before WWI began. Clyde
was really killed in 1916 not 1911.

Some have interpreted the second item as saying that the very first
V-2 was launched in 1946. We all know that Germany was much further
advanced in rocketry that we were and they launched the first V-2
in 1943/44. This item identifies the date when the first AMERICAN
launched V-2 was fired at White Sands; not when the first GERMAN 
launched V-2 was fired.