Famous Ww2 Aces
Matilda Equiluz
To become an ace during World War I, a pilot had to shoot down five enemy planes. This article by Evan Andrews from HISTORY explores six famous aces including the Red Baron and top American ace Eddie Rickenbacker.
There's a big discussion revolving around Sherlock Holmes' sexuality - I like to think he's ace, just seems like it fits - and Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory, but to be quite honest I don't know of any other people, real or fictional, who would be classified as ace. And, honestly, most celebrities are hugely sexualized for the general public (this is one of my... er... pet peeves, shall we say) so I'm just never quite sure who to even begin speculating about.
I definitely think Sherlock and Sheldon are asexual. They are also both autistic, so that may also play a roll in their asexuality. Not that there have been any studies to prove that they relate to each other biologically, but that part of them goes with the personality they were given on the show.
prior philip from "pillars of the earth" was described by the author as "one of that minority of people for whom sex really is no big deal" in the forward; he added prior philip was "the only cheerfully celibate character [he has] ever created." sounds pretty asexual to me!
also, the actor who played lorne from angel (buffy spin-off) said that lorne was probably asexual.
and my personal favorite, merlin (from the bbc show) was described as "curiously non-romantic" by the creators. that doesn't mean he's asexual, of course, but i don't think it's out of the question. :)
AND tim gunn (project runway) identifies as asexual!
(and acebay, i just got the reference in your sig. :/ )
We have no evidence of Sherlock Holmes or Sheldon Cooper being asexual or autistic. In fact, it's been stated by Sheldon's creators that he is neither and was never intended to be. As for Sherlock, we have know way of knowing as his creator died a century before the term asexual was even starting to be played with. It can be reasonably assumed that he was so, but we will never know, and in the case of Sheldon, I would rather respect his creators' wishes than get our hopes up or pretend we know better than they do.
Dexter (of the novels, not the godsawful TV version) is asexual. The titular character of The Deed of Paksenarrion is confirmed as asexual by the creator. An Australian TV show called Shortland Street has an asexual character named Gerald and a slightly more obscure American show called Huge has a character whose name escapes me that was confirmed as asexual.
Emilie Autumn and Tim Gunn have both identified as asexual at one point, though I believe both have later recanted those statements. Edward Gorey, though never identifying specifically as so, is pretty much confirmed as being asexual. He at one point commented that he was 'undersexed'.
Bear in mind that very few people identified as asexual (lacking in sexual attraction) until recent years. The various lists of "famous asexuals" are mostly speculative, if not downright pretentious. Certainly a person cannot be presumed asexual just because she never married or (allegedly) never had sex.
I remember hearing that Spongebob was confirmed asexual by the creators in response to someone asking his sexuality, but I'm not sure if they meant he doesn't feel sexual attraction or they were making a joke/pun because sponges reproduce asexually.
Monkey D. Luffy of One Piece is asexual. The author said he's "only attracted to adventure", and he wasn't effected by a character's ability to make people feel lust towards the user and turn to stone.
Morrissey, the former lead singer of The Smiths and current solo singer, has been cited on multiple occasions as being asexual. His music is pretty damn awesome, btw, and I'll fight anyone to the death who says otherwise :P
Here's the link: -horror-story-ryan-murphy-boy-parts/ It's under the part where they question Misty and Zoe's relationship. Ryan Murphy just mentions that she is asexual and moves on. But it's still pretty great!
For others and historical figures - how can we know? There is speculation that even Edgar Allan Poe never had sex with his wife (he told his friends their relationship was "like brother and sister" and she was ill most of their marriage) and also never had sex with his supposed mistresses (who all deny he did anything wrong and his wife even supported their friendships). His friends said he had no use for women "in a sexual way" but was purely interested in their minds. Then, there are also rumors that he slept with every woman he befriended and even fathered a married woman's child. Unless we can create a time machine and go back and time ASK them, historical figures should remain orientationless. Behavior does not equal orientation. Even if we can prove these historical figures never had sex, it still wouldn't make them asexual. And they are long dead so we can't ask.
One of the reasons behind this argument, I'm guessing, is that Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Richard III) married, but only had one child, the sickly Edward of Middleham. His brothers, Edward IV and George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, both were very much into having as many children as possible. It struck the author of that book as odd that Richard III only had one child, yet he loved Anne Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.
The author concludes that King Richard III was most likely a heteroromantic ace (well, she didn't say he was heteroromantic, but did mention the great love he had for his wife). His brothers were very promiscuous, including many illegitimate children, yet the youngest didn't do that, or even want to do that. Whether he was, I don't know, but it does sound interesting.
A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The exact number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an ace is varied but is usually considered to be five or more.
The concept of the "ace" emerged in 1915 during World War I, at the same time as aerial dogfighting. It was a propaganda term intended to provide the home front with a cult of the hero in what was otherwise a war of attrition. The individual actions of aces were widely reported and the image was disseminated of the ace as a chivalrous knight reminiscent of a bygone era.[1] For a brief early period when air-to-air combat was just being invented, the exceptionally skilled pilot could shape the battle in the skies. For most of the war, however, the image of the ace had little to do with the reality of air warfare, in which fighters fought in formation and air superiority depended heavily on the relative availability of resources.[2] The use of the term ace to describe these pilots began in World War I, when French newspapers described Adolphe Pgoud, as l'As (the ace) after he became the first pilot to down five German aircraft. The British initially used the term "star-turns" (a show business term).
World War I introduced the systematic use of true single-seat fighter aircraft, with enough speed and agility to catch and maintain contact with targets in the air, coupled with armament sufficiently powerful to destroy the targets. Aerial combat became a prominent feature with the Fokker Scourge, in the last half of 1915. This was also the beginning of a long-standing trend in warfare, showing statistically that approximately five percent of combat pilots account for the majority of air-to-air victories.[4]
Allied fighter pilots fought mostly in German-held airspace[5][6] and were often not in a position to confirm that an apparently destroyed enemy aircraft had in fact crashed, so these victories were frequently claimed as "driven down", "forced to land", or "out of control" (called "probables" in later wars). These victories were usually included in a pilot's totals and in citations for decorations.[7]
Other Allied countries, such as France and Italy, fell somewhere in between the very strict German approach and the relatively casual British one. They usually demanded independent witnessing of the destruction of an aircraft, making confirmation of victories scored in enemy territory very difficult.[10] The Belgian crediting system sometimes included "out of control" to be counted as a victory.[11]
While "ace" status was generally won only by fighter pilots, bombers and reconnaissance crews on both sides also destroyed some enemy aircraft, typically in defending themselves from attack. The most notable example of a non-pilot ace in World War I is Charles George Gass with 39 accredited aerial victories.[13]
The Spanish ace Joaqun Garca Morato scored 40 victories for the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. Part of the outside intervention in the war was the supply of "volunteer" foreign pilots to both sides. Russian and American aces joined the Republican air force, while the Nationalists included Germans and Italians.
The Soviet Volunteer Group began operations in the Second Sino-Japanese War as early as December 2, 1937, resulting in 28 Soviet aces.[14] The Flying Tigers were American military pilots who recruited sub rosa to aid the Chinese Nationalists. They spent the summer and autumn of 1941 in transit to China, and did not begin flying combat missions until December 20, 1941.
The Soviet Air Forces has the top Allied pilots in terms of aerial victories, Ivan Kozhedub credited with 66 victories and Alexander Pokryshkin scored 65 victories. It also claimed the only female aces of the war: Lydia Litvyak scored 12 victories and Yekaterina Budanova achieved 11.[15] The highest scoring pilots from the Western allies against the German Luftwaffe were Johnnie Johnson (RAF, 38 kills) and Gabby Gabreski (USAAF, 28 kills in the air and 3 on the ground).[16] In the Pacific theater Richard Bong became the top American fighter ace with 40 kills. In the Mediterranean theater Pat Pattle achieved at least 40 kills, mainly against Italian planes, and became the top fighter ace of the British Commonwealth in the war. Fighting on different sides, the French pilot Pierre Le Gloan had the unusual distinction of shooting down four German, seven Italian and seven British aircraft, the latter while he was flying for Vichy France in Syria.[citation needed]
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