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Far from “just a weatherman,” England headed several innovations in severe weather communications.

Kumley was a small-town Postmaster (and a lot of other things) for 67+ years.

She had to swear to tell no one what she did for 30 years… and then she told.

As a pilot in the Royal Air Force, he was shot down four times, and lived.

Stewart did so well at the first-ever “Top Gun” competition, the military hid his trophy.

He was the last of his kind in his country.

In 1945 World War II, the Army had a backlog of millions of pieces of mail for the troops. Davis and her comrades were sent to fix the problem.

Jessen was one of the “Mercury 13” — women pilots recruited to go through the astronaut selection process to prove they could indeed get through it.