Aviators Posters “D...-”
for the classroom and home schoolers.

Daedalus was an architect whose most cunning work may have been wings he created so he and his young son Icarus could escape from King Minos.

FYI - James Joyce chose the name Stephen Dedalus for his major character suggesting that he could “fly” above the constraints of culture and society.

Roald Dahl
b. 9-13-1916; Llandaff, Wales
d. 11-23-1990; Oxford

Roald Dahl was a WWII flying ace and intelligence officer who is better known as the author of The Twits, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Matilda, The Witches, and The BFG.

Roald Dahl quote ~
• “So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• Roald Dahl at Amazon.com

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
b. 12-18-1912; Wash. DC
d. 7-4-2002; Wash. DC

Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr., a United States Air Force general, was the commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen and 4th African American graduate of West Point.

Jimmy Doolittle
b. 12-14-1896; Alameda, California
d. 9-27-1993; Pebble Beach

Aviation pioneer and WWI flight instructor James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle served as a brigadier general, major general and lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces during the World War II.

Doolittle was awared the Medal of Honor for his valor and leadership as commander of the “Doolittle Raid”, a top-secret attack of 16 B-25 medium bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, with multiple national Japanese targets, in April of 1942.