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Seldon B. Throop
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Co. B, 20th MI. Infantry
William Cutler wrote the following about this gentleman:
S. B. THROOP, of the firm of Throop & Middaugh, wagon and carriage works, Columbus. Mr. Throop is a native of Washtenaw County, Mich., and took up his apprenticeship in 1860, at the age of twenty-one. In 1866, he established a business at Milan, Mich., and successfully carried it on til 1871, when he came to Kansas. In 1876, he established the present business and has very successfully carried it on since. In 1867, he married Miss Irena Fuller, of his native State. They have one son and daughter-Nellie A. and James C. In 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Twentieth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and remained in active service till the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged. He is an active member of John A. Dix Post, No. 54, G. A. R, and of the I. O. O. F. and A. 0. U. W. societies.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: British Hawker Hurricane, with P-38 Lightning and B-29 Enola Gay behind it
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Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC:
Hawker Chief Designer Sydney Camm's Hurricane ranks with the most important aircraft designs in military aviation history. Designed in the late 1930s, when monoplanes were considered unstable and too radical to be successful, the Hurricane was the first British monoplane fighter and the first British fighter to exceed 483 kilometers (300 miles) per hour in level flight. Hurricane pilots fought the Luftwaffe and helped win the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940.
This Mark IIC was built at the Langley factory, near what is now Heathrow Airport, early in 1944. It served as a training aircraft during the World War II in the Royal Air Force's 41 OTU.
Donated by the Royal Air Force Museum
Manufacturer:
Hawker Aircraft Ltd.
Date:
1944
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Wingspan: 12.2 m (40 ft)
Length: 9.8 m (32 ft 3 in)
Height: 4 m (13 ft)
Weight, empty: 2,624 kg (5,785 lb)
Weight, gross: 3,951 kg (8,710 lb)
Top speed:538 km/h (334 mph)
Engine:Rolls-Royce Merlin XX, liquid-cooled in-line V, 1,300 hp
Armament:four 20 mm Hispano cannons
Ordnance:two 250-lb or two 500-lb bombs or eight 3-in rockets
Materials:
Fuselage: Steel tube with aircraft spruce forms and fabric, aluminum cowling
Wings: Stressed Skin Aluminum
Horizontal Stablizer: Stress Skin aluminum
Rudder: fabric covered aluminum
Control Surfaces: fabric covered aluminum
Physical Description:
Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC single seat, low wing monoplane ground attack fighter; enclosed cockpit; steel tube fuselage with aircraft spruce forms and fabric, aluminum cowling, stressed skin aluminum wings and horizontal stablizer, fabric covered aluminum rudder and control surfaces; grey green camoflage top surface paint scheme with dove grey underside; red and blue national roundel on upper wing surface and red, white, and blue roundel lower wing surface; red, white, blue, and yellow roundel fuselage sides; red, white and blue tail flash; Rolls-Royce Merlin XX, liquid cooled V-12, 1,280 horsepower engine; Armament, 4: 20mm Hispano cannons.
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Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay":
Boeing's B-29 Superfortress was the most sophisticated propeller-driven bomber of World War II and the first bomber to house its crew in pressurized compartments. Although designed to fight in the European theater, the B-29 found its niche on the other side of the globe. In the Pacific, B-29s delivered a variety of aerial weapons: conventional bombs, incendiary bombs, mines, and two nuclear weapons.
On August 6, 1945, this Martin-built B-29-45-MO dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, Bockscar (on display at the U.S. Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio) dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Enola Gay flew as the advance weather reconnaissance aircraft that day. A third B-29, The Great Artiste, flew as an observation aircraft on both missions.
Transferred from the United States Air Force.
Manufacturer:
Boeing Aircraft Co.
Martin Co., Omaha, Nebr.
Date:
1945
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 900 x 3020cm, 32580kg, 4300cm (29ft 6 5/16in. x 99ft 1in., 71825.9lb., 141ft 15/16in.)
Materials:
Polished overall aluminum finish
Physical Description:
Four-engine heavy bomber with semi-monoqoque fuselage and high-aspect ratio wings. Polished aluminum finish overall, standard late-World War II Army Air Forces insignia on wings and aft fuselage and serial number on vertical fin; 509th Composite Group markings painted in black; "Enola Gay" in black, block letters on lower left nose.
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Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Lockheed P-38J-10-LO Lightning:
In the P-38 Lockheed engineer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson and his team of designers created one of the most successful twin-engine fighters ever flown by any nation. From 1942 to 1945, U. S. Army Air Forces pilots flew P-38s over Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific, and from the frozen Aleutian Islands to the sun-baked deserts of North Africa. Lightning pilots in the Pacific theater downed more Japanese aircraft than pilots flying any other Allied warplane.
Maj. Richard I. Bong, America's leading fighter ace, flew this P-38J-10-LO on April 16, 1945, at Wright Field, Ohio, to evaluate an experimental method of interconnecting the movement of the throttle and propeller control levers. However, his right engine exploded in flight before he could conduct the experiment.
Transferred from the United States Air Force.
Manufacturer:
Lockheed Aircraft Company
Date:
1943
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 390 x 1170cm, 6345kg, 1580cm (12ft 9 9/16in. x 38ft 4 5/8in., 13988.2lb., 51ft 10 1/16in.)
Materials:
All-metal
Physical Description:
Twin-tail boom and twin-engine fighter; tricycle landing gear.
Samuel B. Shaffer
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Co. C, 3rd, Co. B, 125th and Co. B, 208th PA. Infantry
Portrait and Biological Record of Southeastern Kansas, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the Counties, Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States and The Governors of the State of Kansas. Chicago, Biographical Publishing Co. 1894.
Samuel Shaffer. The farming class of America, and especially of southeastern Kansas, is notable for the degree of intelligence that is possessed by its representatives. Our subject is one of those men to whom this county owes much. He is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Blair County, June 1, 1844. His father, also a Pennsylvanian by birth, was born in Huntingdon County in 1808. His mother Catherine (Hillman) Shaffer, was a native of the same state. The family was among the oldest in Pennsylvania, and were prominent in all matters of public interest. Grandfather Shaffer was one of the Hessians in the Revolutionary War. The parents of our subject died in Pennsylvania.
Samuel Shaffer was one of eight children born to the above couple. He was reared on a farm, and early learned the rudiments of that occupation. In September, 1865, he was married to Miss Clara Henderson, a native of Jefferson County, Pa., and born August 5, 1845. In 1869 our subject and his estimable wife came west and for a time located in Kansas City. In February of the following year, they came to their present home, and at that time the country round their home was very wild, no house being in sight. They settled on one hundred and sixty acres, all of which is now improved, and by his earnest efforts Mr. Shaffer has one of the finest farms in the locality. He is engaged in general farming, and has been very successful in all his work.
In 1861, our subject ran away from home and enlisted in Company C, Third Pennsylvania Regiment, being then only sixteen years of age. He served all through the three months’ campaign under General Wynkoop. When discharged from service, he went to Washington and drove a team for the Government, and assisted in building many of the forts around Arlington. He went home during the winter and summer, and in August enlisted for nine months in Company B, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania, as a private. He later became the Colonel’s Orderly. He took part in the battles of Antietam and Chancellorsville, besides doing other active service. He was discharged at the end of the service and went home. The next summer he again enlisted, becoming a volunteer in Company B, Two Hundred and Eighth Pennsylvania Division. He was in the charge of Petersburgh, Va., under Butler April 2, 1865, and was also present at the surrender of Lee. At the time of the Grand Review at Washington, D. C., he belonged to the First District, Ninth Army Corps. He was mustered out of service June 1, 1865, having served a little over two years.
Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer are the parents of seven children, six of whom are now living: Minnie Kate, Robert, Rosa Ellen, S. B., Jr., Rolla Emery and Gertrude. William is deceased. The children have had the best educational advantages. Miss Minnie K. was a student at the business college of Topeka, and is now a practical stenographer, type-writer and telegraph operator. She took in short hand the last speech made in the county by Senator Plumb.
Politically, Mr. Shaffer is a Republican, and has taken an active part in all the work of that party. He has been a member of the School Board, and has frequently been a delegate at conventions. He was Sheriff of the county for four years. Our subject is a member of Antietam Post, G. A. R. , at Parsons, and is also one of the Patriarchs of America.
