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Lieutenant Colonel Harry Herbert Crosby (April 18, 1919 – July 28, 2010) was an American professor, author and B-17 Flying Fortress navigator. As an officer of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II , he flew 32 combat missions and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (with two oak leaf clusters), the Air Medal ...
26. Jan. 2024 · Harry Crosby was a B-17 navigator who flew 32 combat missions in World War II and wrote a memoir about his experiences. He narrates Apple TV+'s series Masters of the Air, starring Austin Butler as Major Gale 'Buck' Cleven.
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Harry Crosby (2013) Harry Lillis Crosby III (* 8. August 1958 in Hollywood, Los Angeles) ist ein US-amerikanischer Investmentbanker und ehemaliger Schauspieler. Leben und Wirken. Harry Crosby wurde als fünfter Sohn von Bing Crosby geboren.
9. Feb. 2024 · Harry Crosby was a navigator in the 100th Bomb Group, the subject of Apple TV+ series Masters of the Air. His daughter Rebecca and actor Anthony Boyle share how they brought his story to life on screen.
- Early Life
- World War I
- Attends Harvard
- Meets Mrs. Richard Peabody
- Black Sun Press
- The Fire Princess
- Murder and Suicide
- Legacy
- Works
- Sources
Crosby (born Henry Sturgis Crosby — his parents Stephen Van Rensslaer Crosby and Henrietta Marion Grew later changed his middle name to Grew) was born in Boston's exclusive Back Bay neighborhood. He was the product of generations of blue-blood English and Dutch American families, descended from the Van Rensselaers, Schuylers, Morgans, and Grews. Hi...
At age 19, like many young men of upper-crust American society, Crosby volunteered to serve in the American Ambulance Service in France.: 14 Writers whose works he later published also served in the ambulance corps, including Ernest Hemingway and Malcolm Cowley. He arrived in France on July 7, 1917.: 46 When America officially entered the War, the ...
After returning from World War I, Crosby attended Harvard University in the spring of 1919 under an accelerated program for veterans. He took 19 courses, six in French (which he read and spoke fluently) and six in English literature. The remainder of his courses were in fine arts, music, Spanish, and social ethics. Taking his studies very lightly, ...
Crosby's mother invited Mrs. Richard Rogers Peabody (née Mary Phelps Jacob) to chaperone Crosby and some of his friends at a picnic on July 4, 1920, including dinner and a trip to the amusement park at Nantasket Beach. During dinner, Crosby never spoke to the girl on his left, breaking decorum. By some accounts, Crosby fell in love with the buxom M...
In April, 1927, they founded an English language publishing company, first titled Éditions Narcisse, after their black whippet Narcisse Noir. They used the press as an avenue to publish their own poetry in small editions of finely made hardbound volumes. They printed, on high-quality paper, limited quantities of meticulously produced, hand-manufact...
On July 9, 1928, Crosby met 20-year-old Josephine Noyes Rotch, the daughter of Arthur and Helen Ludington Rotch of Boston. Ten years his junior, Josephine was shopping in Venice at the Lido for her wedding dress. She had belonged to the Vincent Club and the Junior League and graduated from Lee School before she had attended Bryn Mawr College. After...
On the evening of the play, December 10, 1929, Caresse, Crosby's mother Henrietta Grew, and Hart Crane met for dinner before the play, but Crosby did not show up, which was uncharacteristic of him as it was not like him to needlessly cause Caresse to worry. She called their friend Stanley Mortimer at his mother's apartment, whose studio Crosby was ...
Crosby as a poet was never more than a minor literary figure while he lived, and was remembered more for his scandalous suicide over his creative efforts. He has greater importance as a co-founder of the Black Sun Press, which Caresse continued to operate after his death. She also established, with Jacques Porel, a side venture, Crosby Continental ...
Sonnets for Caresse. (1925) Paris, Herbert Clarke.Sonnets for Caresse. (1926) 2nd Edition. Paris, Herbert Clarke.Sonnets for Caresse. (1926) 3rd Edition. Paris, Albert Messein.Sonnets for Caresse. (1927) 4th Edition. Paris, Editions Narcisse.Wolff, Geoffrey: Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby (Random House, 1976) ISBN 0-394-47450-3; (repr. New York Review of Books, 2003) ISBN 1-59017-066-0Minkoff, George Robert. A Bibliography of the Black Sun Press...With an introduction by Caresse Crosby. (Great Neck, N.Y.: G. R. Minkoff, 1970)- Red Skeletons (1927), Chariot of the Sun (1928), Transit of Venus (1928)
- Harvard University
- 1925–1929
Harry Lillis Crosby III (born August 8, 1958) is an American investment banker and former actor. Personal life. Crosby was born at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. [1] . He is the fifth son of actor and singer Bing Crosby, and the eldest from Bing's second marriage to actress Kathryn Crosby.
15. März 2024 · Harry Crosby was a navigator in the US Air Force during World War II, who had a complex personality and a tragic affair with Sandra Wesgate. Learn more about his life, achievements, and challenges in this article based on his memoir and the Apple TV+ series.
