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ANNEX ‘B’ - CAREER AND AWARDS OF INGRID DOWS ‘C’

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Military career, achievements and dates of ranks:

 

September, 1940 ‘A’: Ingrid Weiss enrolls in the Luftwaffe as a female auxiliary (Helferin) at the age of 15, after being orphaned in a British air bombing on Berlin.

January 2, 1941 ‘B’: Ingrid captured in Wissant, France, by British commandos led by Nancy Laplante ‘A’.  She is then interned with other German female auxiliaries in the Tower of London.  Later, she is secretly adopted by Nancy Laplante and Mike Crawford, becomes a U.S. citizen.

July 18, 1941 ‘C’: Ingrid pardoned and released by the British, marries U.S. Marine Corps Major Kenneth Dows and becomes Ingrid Dows, follows her husband to his new posting in the Philippines.  There, she will earn her civilian private pilot license.

September 18, 1941 ‘C’: Ingrid is hired by General Douglas MacArthur as a civilian auxiliary air situation plotter at his Manila headquarters.

October 21, 1941 ‘C’: img33.jpg After interceding with General MacArthur, Ingrid is accepted in the Philippine Air Force as a fighter pilot, with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, and sent to the 6th Pursuit Squadron in Batangas, will fly on Boeing P-26 PEASHOOTER. 

October 24, 1941 ‘C’: Ingrid flies her first combat mission on P-26.  She shoots down two Japanese planes.

October 25, 1941 ‘C’: img34.png Promotion in the field to 1st Lieutenant.  Ingrid is given a Curtiss P-40E WARHAWK.

October 27, 1941 ‘C’: Ingrid becomes a double ace, is given the nickname of ‘Lady Hawk’ as a fighter pilot.

October 28, 1941 ‘C’: img35.png Promotion in the field to Captain.

November 4, 1941 ‘C’: In a desperate fight alone against 300 Japanese planes, Ingrid shoots down seven Japanese planes but is herself shot down and has to parachute out, suffers serious burns.  She is now the top American air ace in history, with 26 confirmed air victories.

November 6, 1941 ‘C’: Ingrid is sent by air to Australia for medical treatment.

November 19, 1941 ‘C’: Ingrid is given command in Brisbane of the 17th Fighter Squadron (Provisional), flying on Curtiss P-40F.  She sails next night for the Philippines with her squadron and her planes on the Pensacola Convoy, arrives in Manila on December 2.

January 14, 1941 ‘C’: Ingrid’s squadron contributes greatly in repelling an attempted Japanese invasion of the Philippines, but she then learns that her husband Ken has been killed in combat.  Her air victory score is now at 68.

February 22, 1941 ‘C’: Ingrid arrives in Havre, Montana, for a long overdue rest period, stays at the Crawford Family farm.

March 9, 1941 ‘C’: img36.png Ingrid is called to Washington by General ‘Hap’ Arnold, who enrolls her in the U.S. Army Air Force as a fighter pilot, with the rank of Major.  Ingrid is tasked by Arnold to form an all-female combat air group to be named the 99th Composite Air Group (The ‘Fifinellas’).

September 2, 1942 ‘C’: Ingrid and her 99th C.A.G. arrive in Espiritu Santo, in the South Pacific.

September 10, 1942 ‘C’: Ingrid and five of her female fighter pilots, flying on Lockheed P-38N, land in Guadalcanal, start intercepting Japanese air raids.  Ingrid’s air victory count climbs to 76.

September 30, 1942 ‘C’: img37.png Ingrid is promoted in the field to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

October 7, 1942 ‘C’: Ingrid is shot down and gravely wounded, dies on the operating table but is then miraculously resurrected by The One, becomes a Chosen.

January 15, 1943 ‘C’: Ingrid and her air unit, now a full-sized air wing (99th Composite Wing), are transferred to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, under the command of General MacArthur.

February 01, 1943 ‘C’: img38.png Ingrid promoted in the field by General MacArthur to the rank of full Colonel, following the successful taking of Lae by air assault.

June 19, 1943 ‘C’: Ingrid is told that she will be posted to a staff position at the Pentagon.  She says goodbye to her female aviators.

June 28, 1943 ‘C’: Ingrid arrives in Washington with General MacArthur, attends a strategic command conference.

July 5, 1943 ‘C’: Ingrid starts working at the Pentagon as the head of the USAAF Joint and Combined Chief of Staff Subject Plans Section, helps rewrite USAFF air combat tactics.

January 4, 1944 ‘C’: img39.png Ingrid promoted to the rank of Brigadier General by General Marshall and given command of the 9th Tactical Air Command, located in England.  She is given a new Lockheed P-38NC fighter as her personal plane.

January 7, 1944 ‘C’: Ingrid arrives in her P-38NC in Middle Wallop, England.

January 11, 1944 ‘C’: Ingrid is unjustly relieved of command by Lieutenant General Vandenberg, for protesting about a decision to continue using inefficient, costly air tactics.  General Eisenhower backs her up.  General Marshall relieves Lieutenant General Vandenberg and reinstates Ingrid in her command.

June 6, 1944 ‘C’: Ingrid commands from the air in an EC-142E flying over France at the start of Allied landings along the South coast of France.

June 11, 1944 ‘C’: Ingrid launches her 9th Tactical Air Command into a massive heliborne operation to take the bridges along the Southern Rhine River.  She lands in Karlsruhe and establishes her advanced headquarters there.  The British then destroy Berlin with a nuclear bomb, without warning their U.S. allies.  They also devastate Japan with ten nuclear missiles.  The war abruptly ends.  Her air victory count stands at 126.

June 14, 1944 ‘C’: Ingrid, along with General Eisenhower, is recalled to Washington to help assess the situation.  She then returns to Germany as Military Governor of the Baden State, with headquarters in Karlsruhe.

September, 1944 ‘C’: Profiting from the G.I. Bill, Ingrid starts studying at the Boston M.I.T. to obtain a degree in aeronautical engineering.  She is now a reservist officer serving on part-time basis.

June, 1948 ‘C’: Ingrid graduates with honors from the M.I.T. as an aeronautical engineer.  She is however recalled at once into active service and given command of the Korea Air Task Force, or K.A.T.F.

June 19, 1948 ‘C’: Ingrid and her K.A.T.F. arrive in Korea, establish their base in Suwon, near Seoul.

June 25, 1948 ‘C’: The Korean War starts, with North Korea invading the South with the help of ‘volunteer’ Soviet combat pilots.  Ingrid and her pilots react at once, but the rest of the American command in Korea is disorganized and incompetent, resulting in repeated instances of units withdrawing in panic and without orders.

August 16, 1948 ‘C’: The defeated American forces withdraw in disorder from Korea.  The K.A.T.F. is one of the few units to hold firm and leave in good order and with all its equipment.  Ingrid is last to fly out of Korea as the enemy approaches her airfield, flies to the Philippines with her air task force.  That military disaster results in the impeachment of President Truman for incompetence and abuse of power.

August 25, 1948 ‘C’: img40.png Ingrid is called to Washington and is named by new President Joseph Martin as his Special Presidential Advisor and is also named Director of Air Force Aircraft Development Programs, with the rank of Major General.

September 21, 1948 ‘C’: Ingrid arrives in Niigata, Japan, as Plenipotentiary Envoy of President Martin, negotiates with Emperor Hirohito a U.S. help package in exchange for basing rights in Japan.

October 7, 1948 ‘C’: Ingrid launches multiple new aircraft, engines and missile development programs for the U.S. Air Force, using knowledge from the future imported by Nancy Laplante in 1940.

November 10, 1951 ‘C’: First test flight of the prototype XF-83 out of Muroc, with Ingrid at the commands.

January 29, 1952 ‘C’: Ingrid named by President Dewey to be part of a U.S. military assistance and assessment team (M.A.A.T.I.) to be sent to Indochina.

February 5, 1952 ‘C’: Ingrid and the M.A.A.T.I. team arrive in Saigon, Indochina, liaise with the French military command.  Ingrid tours the French airfields, flies two combat missions with the French.

March 11, 1952 ‘C’: The M.A.A.T.I. team leaves Saigon at the end of its mission.

May 2, 1952 ‘C’: Ingrid sets new unofficial World speed record (classified results) on the XF-83, reaching a speed of Mach 3.96.  General Vandenberg decides to use the 99th Composite Wing (The Fifinellas) as Operational Testing Unit for all the new aircraft developed by Ingrid.

November 15, 1952 ‘C’: Ingrid named by President Dewey as Commander of the Joint Task Force – Indochina, with Marine Corps Brigadier General Puller as her deputy.

December 20, 1952 ‘C’: Ingrid flies into Vietnam in her F-83A fighter-bomber, encounters a Soviet air raid on Haiphong and shoots down twelve Soviet aircraft, then lands in Da Nang.  Ingrid’s air victory count now stands at 150.

December 24, 1952 ‘C’: First meeting of Ingrid and little Hien in Da Nang.

December 27, 1952 ‘C’: Ingrid named by President Dewey as his Plenipotentiary Envoy in Indochina, cutting off Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.

December 29, 1952 ‘C’: Devastating air raid on Beijing by Ingrid’s planes, while a vertical air assault liberates American P.O.W.s held in a labor camp in Northern Manchuria.

January 27, 1953 ‘C’: Ingrid is able to adopt little 5-years-old Hien in Da Nang, thanks to new regulations concerning American female military service personnel.

February 21, 1953 ‘C’: Ingrid accepts to take command of a peace force to be sent to Israel/Palestine.

March 15, 1953 ‘C’: Ingrid arrives with her task force in Ramat David, Israel.  The same day, she is forced to relieve of command and replace her deputy, Rear Admiral Felt, for insubordination.

March 24, 1953 ‘C’: Ingrid is forced to sink the cruiser H.M.S. TIGER, which was jamming her radars and radios during an Arab air attack.  Long-term consequences for UK/US relations.

July 3, 1953 ‘C’: Ingrid transferred to Germany with a number of her female pilots and personnel, becomes Commander of the 3rd U.S. Air Force, with headquarters in Stuttgart.

August 1, 1953 ‘C’: Stalin sends an ultimatum to President Dewey: do not use nuclear weapons to stop an impending Soviet invasion of Poland, on pain of seeing American cities nuked (bluff by Stalin).  Dewey calls his military commanders in Germany, learns that Ingrid already has a plan ready to be executed.  President Dewey gives the go ahead to Ingrid.  Start of the Eastern Europe War.

August 8, 1953 ‘C’: Ingrid leads a raid on Moscow by F-83 squadron, flattens both the Kremlin and the Lubyanka headquarters of the Soviet secret police, killing all the Soviet leaders except for Khrushchev, who then grabs power with Soviet Army leaders.

August 19 – 21, 1953 ‘C’: Armistice talks in Helsinki, Finland.  Ingrid is part of the U.S. peace delegation.  A peace treaty is signed.

July 01, 1955 ‘C’: Ingrid is posted back to the U.S.A., returns with little Hien and buys a house in Arlington, near the Pentagon.

July 29, 1955 ‘C’: img41.png Ingrid, now a lieutenant general, presented to the Joint Chiefs of Staff as Commander of the new United States Military Space Command, tasked to open Space to the U.S.A.

October 30, 1956 ‘C’: Launch in orbit of first American artificial satellite, EXPLORER 1.

January 16, 1957 ‘C’: First successful test of a U.S. ICBM.

March 23, 1957 ‘C’: First human flight in Earth orbit by Ingrid aboard her SP-10A spaceplane.  The British attempt to shoot her down with missiles when she overflies the UK on her flight back home.

April 16, 1957 ‘C’: Activation in Vandenberg Space Base of the 1st Space Squadron of the U.S. Military Space Command.

April 24, 1957 ‘C’: Ingrid flies to orbit in her SP-10A spaceplane in order to rescue two Soviet cosmonauts (Lilya Litvak, Yuri Gagarin) stuck in orbit in their defective capsule.  Ingrid shot at by British missiles over Australia, has to crash-land in the Central Australian Desert.  She and the two Soviets are rescued the day later by American planes.

January 23, 1961 ‘C’: Ingrid tasked by President John F. Kennedy to prepared a manned Moon mission.

October 10, 1961 ‘C’: A SP-10C piloted by Gertrude Meserve lands on the Moon, starts building a permanent Moon base.

October 27, 1961 ‘C’: img42.png Ingrid promoted by President John F. Kennedy to the rank of full general.

May 2, 1962 ‘C’: Ingrid leaves Earth for a two-week mission on the Moon, in command of the fourth lunar mission.

August 10, 1964 ‘C’: Ingrid tasked by President John F. Kennedy to prepare a manned Mars Mission.

September 28, 1968 ‘C’: Successful launch and flight to Earth orbit of the spaceship U.S.S. CONSTITUTION.

May 6, 1971 ‘C’: The U.S.S. CONSTITUTION boosts out of Earth orbit, heading for Mars, with Ingrid as the expedition commander.

September 16, 1971 ‘C’: The U.S.S. CONSTITUTION arrives in Mars orbit.

September 27, 1971 ‘C’: The Mars Lander touches down in the Capri Chasma.  Ingrid is the first Human to step on Mars.

September 30, 1971 ‘C’: Life found on Mars, in underground brine aquifers.

April 11, 1973 ‘C’: Ingrid and the Lander team return to the U.S.S. CONSTITUTION.

April 29, 1973 ‘C’: The U.S.S. CONSTITUTION boosts out of Mars orbit, returns to Earth via a risky slingshot maneuver around Venus.

November 9, 1973 ‘C’: The U.S.S. CONSTITUTION arrives back in Earth orbit.

December 8, 1973 ‘C’: China attacks Taiwan, nuke Taipei and attempts to invade by sea. President Robert Kennedy orders limited nuclear strikes from orbit on the next day.  The Chinese reactionary leadership is then swept out by a revolt of young Chinese Red Army officers, who put Deng Xiaoping back in control.

January 1, 1974 ‘C’: Activation of the new United State Space Corps, with Ingrid as its commander.

May 8, 1975 ‘C’: First test flight by Ingrid of the new ASP-100 space interceptor.

August 2, 1975 ‘C’: The U.S.S. LIBERTY boosts out of Earth orbit, on its way to Mars.

September 23, 1975 ‘C’: A stolen Chinese H-bomb hidden inside an unsuspecting Soviet container ship explodes inside Honolulu Harbor, destroys Honolulu, severely damages Pearl Harbor and renders the Hawaii Islands uninhabitable for decades.  A second hidden H-bomb is discovered and neutralized close to New York.

September 25, 1975 ‘C’: Ingrid leads a squadron of F-83Es on nuclear strikes against North Korean command and military targets.

June 3, 1976 ‘C’: Ingrid pilots a Universal Orbiter launched by the new mass driver ramp in Vandenberg Space Base, starts assembly of the AURORA Orbital Space Station.

December 4, 1976 ‘C’: Official inauguration of the AURORA Orbital Space Station.

December 5, 1976 ‘C’: Ingrid goes to the Middle East as Plenipotentiary Envoy of President Robert Kennedy, in order to prevent a new war there.

May 6, 1980 ‘C’: Ingrid gives to President Ronald Reagan and his wife a tour of the newly completed spaceship U.S.S. PROMETHEUS in Muroc.

June 18, 1980 ‘C’: Ingrid takes off at the commands of the U.S.S. PROMETHEUS, climbs to orbit.

August 7, 1980 ‘C’: The U.S.S. PROMETHEUS boosts out of Earth orbit, with Ingrid as mission commander, on its way to Jupiter and Saturn.

November 17, 1981 ‘C’: The U.S.S. PROMETHEUS arrives inside the Jupiter System.  Will find tardigrade lifeforms on Europa.

January 29, 1982 ‘C’: Ingrid uses her healing power to save a crewmember horribly burned in a kitchen fire.  At night, she has sex and is impregnated by Archangel Michael.

November 4, 1982 ‘C’: Ingrid gives birth to her daughter Nancy as the U.S.S. PROMETHEUS is closing in on the Saturn System.

Mars 28, 1983 ‘C’: Tardigrade lifeforms found on Enceladus.

July 10, 1983 ‘C’: Ingrid personally pilots the U.S.S. PROMETHEUS through the thick atmosphere of Titan and lands safely on that moon of Saturn.  Flying medusa-like lifeforms found on Titan.

March 20, 1985 ‘C’: The U.S.S. PROMETHEUS is back in Earth orbit.  President G.H.W. Bush convinces Ingrid to keep on serving, but she asks first for a few months of vacation.  President Bush accepts her request.

April 18, 1985 ‘C’: Ingrid passes command of the United States Space Corps to General Eugene Cernan and leaves active military service, but stays as National Director of Civilian Space Program and as Special Presidential Advisor.  She then goes on a long vacation with her daughter Nancy, who is close to three-year-old.

May 7, 1987 ‘C’: During one of her periodic training flights in a F-83C as a reservist officer, Ingrid play an enemy plane, manages to penetrate the U.S. East Coast air defenses and photograph the White House, the Pentagon and the Capitol Building.

June 27, 1988 ‘C’: After her house sustains significant damage during a gunfight with a bunch of Mafiosi, a worried Ingrid tells President G.H.W. Bush that she has no choice left but to quit her job at the White House, so that she could care for and protect Nancy and young Leonardo Bocelli, whose parents were just assassinated.  President Bush accepts her decision.

May 13, 1989 ‘C’: At the special request of President Bush, Ingrid attends a NSC meeting at the White House, following a bomb attack in Moscow that kills progressive and moderate Soviet leaders and places in power a group of hardline Communists who try to put the blame on the U.S.A.  Lilya Litvak and two Soviet scientists attending an astronomy conference in Washington take refuge at Ingrid’s house, ask for political asylum.

May 14, 1989 ‘C’: Seeing no other way to save the innocent American civilians unjustly accused of terrorism in Moscow and fearing a possible nuclear war, Ingrid decides to seek the help of the Time Patrol, of which she is still a field agent in place for Timeline ‘C’.

May 15, 1989 ‘C’: The fifteen Americans and four Soviets who had been tortured into ‘confessing’ of being CIA spies are saved and instantly transported through space-time to Ingrid’s courtyard in Arlington, while Ingrid vaporizes the war-mongering clique of Soviet dictatorial leaders.  The Soviet Union then sinks into civil war.

September 1, 1992 ‘C’:  Ingrid visits Coronado Amphibious Base, in San Diego, at the request of the commander of the Naval Special Warfare Command, Rear Admiral Raymond Smith, who asks her to design a new SEAL delivery vehicle for his command.  Ingrid accepts, will liaise with the Hiller Corporation, for which she has been working as a design engineer, producing both the Hiller AIRCAR and the Hiller AIR BIKE.  The new vehicle is to be called the Hiller SUPERCAR.

March 17, 1993 ‘C’: Rear Admiral Smith pays an unexpected visit to the Hiller Corporation in Firebaugh, California, and asks Ingrid if he could use the prototype of the Hiller SUPERCAR.  Ingrid accepts, but states that she is the only person presently qualified to operate and fly the prototype.  She thus leaves with the Supercar for the Coronado Amphibious Base to get equipped and team up with five SEAL commandos, then leaves with them by cargo plane for Turkey.

March 19, 1993 ‘C’: Ingrid manages to penetrate the Sea of Azov and get to the Rostov area, just in time to save two stranded American pilots about to be captured.  In the process, Ingrid shoots down one helicopter and two MIG-21 fighter jets (kills # 167, 168 and 169 in her career).  She then flies her Supercar out of danger and back to Turkey.

March 24, 1993 ‘C’: Tired of the inefficiency, slowness of reaction and disjointed decision-making process of the Joint Chiefs, President Perot gets his VP, Vice Admiral James Stockdale, to petition the Congress to drastically change the command structure of the U.S. military forces and create the position of American military commander-in-chief, with the rank of five-star general.

July 01, 1993 ‘C’: img43.png Ingrid returns to active military service as the first U.S. Military Commander-in-Chief, with the rank of five-star general.

 

 

Military and civilian awards won by Ingrid Dows ‘C’

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Astronaut’s Wings

Congressional Medal of Honor (X2); Distinguished Service Cross: Navy Cross (X2)

Defense Distinguished Service Medal; Army Distinguishes Service Medal (X2); Silver Star (X4)

Legion of Merit (Officer); Distinguished Flying Cross (X10); Purple Heart (X2)

Presidential Unit Citation; Presidential Medal of Freedom; Congressional Space Medal of Honor

Space Distinguished Service Medal; Space Flight Medal; Army Reserve Component Medal

American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (X2 stars); Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (X2 stars)

World War 2 Victory Medal; Army Occupation Medal (Germany); Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal

Indochina Service Medal; Korean War Service Medal; Légion d’Honneur (Officer, France)

Croix de Guerre 1939 (with palm, France); National Order of Vietnam (Grand Cross); Order of the White Eagle (1st Class, Poland)

Palestine Interposition Force; Presidential Unit Citation (Philippines); Defense Medal (Philippines)