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John W Thornton 1927 - 2001

John W Thornton was born on November 26, 1927, and died at age 73 years old on August 29, 2001. John Thornton was buried at Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery-sussex Co. Section B Row I Site 14 26669 Patriots Way, in Millsboro, De. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John W Thornton.

John W Thornton
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    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: PFC Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
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In 1927, in the year that John W Thornton was born, aviator and media darling Charles Lindbergh, age 25, made the first successful solo TransAtlantic flight. "Lucky Lindy" took off from Long Island in New York and flew to Paris, covering  3,600 statute miles and flying for 33 1⁄2-hours. His plane "The Spirit of St. Louis" was a fabric-covered, single-seat, single-engine "Ryan NYP" high-wing monoplane designed by both Lindbergh and the manufacturer's chief engineer.
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In 1934, at the age of only 7 years old, John was alive when on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.
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