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	Wop May Information
		May was born in Carberry, Manitoba, son of a carriage maker.
		May spent most of April getting used to his Sopwith Camel, but on the 20th was in combat which a German Fokker Triplane who crashed of his own accord during their brief fight.
		May is immortalized in song by Stompin' Tom Connors - "Wop May"; The Gumboots" from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories - "Wop May" and yet another by John Spearn of Edmonton - "Roy Brown and Wop May".
	www.bookrags.com /Wop_May (1658 words)

	Wop May - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		May was born in Carberry, Manitoba, son of a carriage maker.
		In September May Aeroplanes was hired by the RCMP during their manhunt for John Larsen, wanted on two counts of murder and a break-in.
		May is immortalized in songs by Stompin' Tom Connors ("Wop May"), The Gumboots ("Wop May"), and John Spearn ("Roy Brown and Wop May").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wop_May (1817 words)

	Wop May - Definition, explanation
		Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May (April 20, 1896 – June 21, 1952) was a pioneering aviator who basically invented the concept of a bush pilot while working the Canadian west.
		May continued flying with the 209th until the end of the war, and eventually claimed 13 aircraft and 4 probables.
		May flew Detective James Campbell to the small town of Edson, and Larsen was caught soon thereafter.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/w/wo/wop_may.php (1610 words)

	Real Estate Weekly
		Wop May was one of Canada’s most famous airmen and he did more to put Edmonton on the world aviation map than perhaps any other.
		Wilfrid Reid May was born in Carberry, Manitoba in 1896 and came to Edmonton in 1902.
		Wop May died in 1952 at the age of 56.
	www.rewedmonton.ca /content_view_rew?CONTENT_ID=1525 (990 words)

	Captain Wilfred Reid (Wop) May
		The air cooled guns of May's fighter plane frozen, the young aviator was caught in a life and death struggle with von Richthofen on his tail, confident of making May his 88th allied casualty.
		May, who also downed his first enemy fighter in combat that day, was instantly recognized as a Canadian war time hero.
		May's courage and flying skills were also credited with saving the life of another RCMP Officer who had been wounded by Albert Johnson immediately prior to his own death when he flew in treacherous, blizzard like conditions with little to no visibility over the Richardson Mountains in the Northwest Territories.
	www.bestcdn.com /primary/pride/may.htm (339 words)

	Alberta's Aviation Heritage - Captain Wilfrid Reid
		Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May was born in Carberry, Manitoba on 20 April 1896.
		May entered initial training at the Royal Flying Corps School of Instruction in Acton in October 1917, where he flew a Caudron G. He was permitted to complete his first solo flight after only three hours and twenty-nine minutes of instruction on 17 November 1917.
		May was then transferred to 94 Squadron at Hendon where he received advanced training that included signalling, aerial photography, bomb dropping, ground gunnery, fighting in flight, and formation flying.
	www.abheritage.ca /aviation/people/ww1_wilfrid_reid.html (409 words)

	Famous, Should Be Famous, and Infamous Canadians: Wop May
		May continued his military career, rising to the rank of captain and receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross.
		When the war was over, May returned to Alberta where his family had moved when he was five, and he spent some time barnstorming and performing stunts at local fairs.
		Wop May died of a heart attack at age 56 while hiking in Utah and his body was flown back to Edmonton for burial.
	www.famouscanadians.net /name/m/maywop.php (252 words)

	U.S. Medal of Freedom Recipient Wilfrid 'Wop' Reid May
		Wop May awarded the Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm by the US Government in 1947.
		May, serving in the capacity of Superintendent of the Air Observer’s School at Edmonton Municipal Airport and later as District Manager of Canadian Pacific Airlines, voluntarily loaned the personnel and the facilities of his school to assure the delivery of aircraft to the Aleutians and Alaska without delay.
		Wop was discharged from the Canadian Army on October 24, 1917.
	www.medaloffreedom.com /WilfridMay.htm (567 words)

	Wop_May
		The envelope is signed by the pilot, W.R May. Wilfrid "Wop" May was born in Edmonton Alberta in 1896.
		This was shortened to "Wop", and it stuck.
		"Wop" May survived the war as a Captain with 13 aerial victories to his credit and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
	www.kaisersbunker.com /rfc/rfc15.htm (607 words)

	Wop May html
		One of these pioneers was Captain Wop May, an Edmonton resident who had gained fame when, on his first combat flight, he was pursued and shot at by the 'Red Baron'.
		The fates must have smiled on the Canadian because Richtofen was killed during this chase and May survived to continue on to rise to the rank of captain, shoot down thirteen enemy aircraft, and be given the Distinguished Flying Cross.
		This proposal was ratified by city council on May 12, 1919 and enabled May Airplanes to take over the Jenny (upon deposit of a bond that would guarantee her replacement should she be 'damaged by accident or be demolished').
	www.ualberta.ca /EDMONTON/CONTRIB/airmuseum/aammay.html (1656 words)

	Wop's WWI role as Fighter Pilot
		Wop’s Flight Commander was a former school chum, from Victoria School in Edmonton - Roy Brown from Carleton Place, Ontario.
		Wop left the canal and flew into the village of Vaux-sur-Somme - an observer on a rooftop reported "two aircraft flying down the street below him" - at the end of the street was a Church.
		Wop May continued to fly with 209 Squadron till the end of the war - he kept his log book until May 19, 1918 at that time deciding to cease - he told me "we figured we would not come back from the next flight so what was the point".
	www.wopmay.com /adventures/fighterPilot.htm (1260 words)

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		One of the Northwest Territories’ most famous ‘bush’ pilots was Wilfrid Reid “Wop” May. Born on April 20 th, 1896 in Carberry, Manitoba, raised and educated in Edmonton, he acquired his unusual nickname early in life when his cousin tried to say Wilfrid; it came out ‘Woppie’ and the shortened form ‘Wop’ stuck.
		After leaving Imperial Oil May spent a few years with the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio but was back in Edmonton by 1926 and back into the aviation field as an inaugural member of the Edmonton Flying Club and their chief flying instructor.
		In 1974 Wilfrid Reid “Wop” May was inducted into the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame in recognition of “his aeronautical brilliance in the cruelest geographical arenas” and for promoting the role of the airplane in the development of Canada’s north.
	pwnhc.ca /timeline/1925/1929_wopmay.htm (527 words)

	Wop's Chronicles
		November 15, 2004 - The Jasper Gates Foundation in West Edmonton commissioned a mural for Wop May - painted by mural artist Dave Carty, it measures 16' x 9' and is mounted on the West side of the Alberta Treasury Branch building on the NE corner of 156th St and Stony Plain Road.
		A limited edition (200) print of the mural is available at a cost of CDN$75.00 + shipping and it’s signed by the Artist and the son of Wop May and comes with a certificate of authenticity and biography of Wop May and of the Artist.
		Wop May moved, with his family, to Edmonton in 1902, so we do have stories to tell.
	www.wopmay.com (1085 words)

	Alberta's Aviation Heritage - Wop May
		May Airplanes limited was formed in 1919 with the cooperation of the City of Edmonton.
		May and his companies assisted the Health Board with a diphtheria outbreak and delivered the first airmail to the arctic circle for the Canadian Post Office.
		Additionally, May was well known for developing a search and rescue program during WWII to find and rescue pilots that went down along the Northwest Staging route.
	www.abheritage.ca /aviation/people/between_wop_may.html (166 words)

	News from the Jersey Cape - Doo Wop
		Everyone was in love with their cars, their huge, gas guzzlers with sweeping tail fins that took them to drive-in movies, to burger joints with car hops on roller skates and to motels, those motor hotels that quickly replaced hotels and tourist cabins.
		Unlike neighboring Cape May, a town whose Victorian architecture was meant to be enjoyed on horseback or on foot at a leisurely pace, Wildwood was building motels designed to catch the eye as extravagant billboards that served as advertisements for themselves.
		Doo Wop tours, a 45-minute guided trolley ride around town with stories about the way life was in the Wildwoods during the Doo Wop days with great tunes from the 1950s, are sponsored by the Mid Atlantic Center for the Arts.
	www.thejerseycape.net /Press-Release/doo-wop-2002.htm (965 words)

	Doo Wop Motels \| 2006 11 Most Endangered Places (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On a 40-block stretch of the Jersey Shore sits an ode to 1950s optimism: Wildwood's Doo Wop motels, a string of brash and fanciful beach resorts where a generation of American families returned year after year to soak up the sun and celebrate their newfound prosperity.
		Though vacationers still flock to the Wildwoods today, more than 100 of the Doo Wop motels have fallen to the wrecking ball – two dozen in the last two years alone – because of increased speculation in condo construction and rising property values.
		The Doo Wop Preservation League is lobbying local elected officials for zoning restrictions and incentives to support property owners who want to keep and renovate their Doo Wop motels.
	www.nationaltrust.org /11most/doo_wop.html (639 words)

	CM Magazine: Wings of a Hero: Canada's Pioneer Flying Ace Wilfred Wop May.
		Wop bedded the plane down and went to meet the press, tired, cold, and stiff, but enthusiastic about the machine he had handled for five hours.
		Wilfred "Wop" May was born in the small town of Carberry, Manitoba, in 1896, but lived most of his life in Edmonton and northern Alberta.
		Canadian flying was in its infancy when Wop first flew open cockpit wooden biplanes into the Arctic w astes, but, by the time of his death at 56, the industry he fostered had matured into a grand enterprise spanning the globe.
	www.umanitoba.ca /cm/vol5/no4/wingsofahero.html (487 words)

	One Old Green Bus - November 2006, 24
		Wilfrid May was born in 1896 in Carberry, Manitoba and was raised and educated in Edmonton, Alberta.
		May used his newfound fame to help establish an airline servicing Northern Canada that would eventually be called "Canadian Pacific Airlines".
		In 1947, Wop May was awarded the Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm by The United States Army Air Force for this team's inception.
	doubledeckerbuses.org /blog/index.php/2006/11/24 (1900 words)

	Urban Dictionary: wop
		Widely used in Chicago where most immigrants from Campania settled, one of its native sons, Al Capone, was a typical "Guappo", the term was confused by the non Italian population to indicate people of Italian origins, similarly to the word “Paesano”.
		The term has been erroneously explained to mean “Without Papers” because of the initials “WP” or "WOP" by those, Italian descent or not, that have little knowledge of Italian history and dialects.
		If you call me a wop, or a dego or anything that has to do with pizza my uncle Tony'll beat your ass with a lead pipe.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=wop (768 words)

	Doo Wop Mp3 - Definition Of Genre - Original Rhythm And Blues
		By 1953, doo wop was extremely popular, and disc jockey Alan Freed began introducing fl groups' music to his white audiences, with great success.
		There was a revival of the nonsense-syllable form of doo-wop in the early 1960s, with popular records by The Marcels, The Rivingtons, and Vito and the Salutations.
		Nonsense syllables were derived from bop and jazz styles, traditional West African chants, a cappella street corner singing (in place of the instrumental bass line), and doo-wop-styled r and b songs during the 1950-1951 period (e.g., the Dominoes' "Harbor Lights").
	www.jeffosretromusic.com /defdoowop.html (3165 words)

	WOP's, why does it matter now? - Sean Hannity Discussion
		I seem to recall a time in our not so distance history that millions of immigrants from overseas showed up on our shores sans documentation aka Without Papers (WOPs) and most were embraced and allowed to enter our great nation and eventually partake of the long road to citizenship.
		It was more controlled in those days it would seem to me, there is no comparison to those days, and what we face now, in my estimation.
		Especially when those that come here may have a more sinister purpose, in this time of greater threat of anihilation from a sworn enemy.
	www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=70048 (2299 words)

	Wilfred Reid "Wop" May
		Postmaster G.H. Rocke (left) and pilot Wop May in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
		Wop May was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross during the First World War and was also famous as a bush pilot: in 1929, he was awarded the McKee Trophy for having set up air services in remote regions.
		During the company's inaugural flight on December 10, 1929, Wop May was in charge of operations as well as being one of the pilots.
	www.civilization.ca /cpm/courrier2/ccie30ce.html (153 words)

	CNN - Doggy doo-wop - May 11, 1997
		CNN - Doggy doo-wop - May 11, 1997
		To witness humans yipping, yowling, yapping, ululating and bark-singing is to hope that the accompanying film clip is not aboard the next unmanned space-probe when it is sent off to explore the solar system.
		Let whoever may find it only discover this particular aspect of human behavior when they know us a little better.
	www.cnn.com /US/9705/11/fringe/singing.dogs/index.html (221 words)

	MvR English
		One of the soldiers known to have fired at the plane was Gunner 3801 Robert Buie, an oyster farmer from Brooklyn, New South Wales.
		Even Lt Wilfrid (Wop) May who was merely an unwitting lure for Richthofen had his part to play in this very real drama.
		To me, the answer to this is not as important a seeing all of them, including Wilfrid May and a possible unknown soldier, as the heroes they really were, involved in the day to day, month to month and year to year horror of the worst conflagration the world had ever seen.
	www.anzacs.net /MvR_English.htm (1643 words)

	Doo Wop ClubRally (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The 2006 Doo Wop Rallies are 80 and 160 miles in length with 52 and 47 stage miles in 5 and 8 stages.
		Competitors may check in early at the final control each day, and declare their ideal arrival time, as long as that time has not passed.
		An Observation Control may be used to check for violation of local laws or NASA rules.
	doowoprally.com /supps.html (1319 words)

	And the winner is,August Story Challenge
		May moved with his family to Edmonton in 1902, and in 1916 he enlisted in 202 "City of Edmonton" Sportsman Battalion of the Canadian Infantry.
		May and his wife were transferred to Fort McMurray where he served as a pilot for their northern services.
		May was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1935 for his many contributions to Canadian aviation.
	www.magickalkingdom.com /topic_2354.htm (2546 words)

	Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May
		World War I fighter pilot, and one of Canada’s early bush pilots, "Wop" May survived being chased by Baron Manfred Von Richthofen, the "Red Baron, with the timely intervention of Roy Brown.
		By the end of the war he had downed thirteen enemy aircraft, with an additional four "probables".
		May formed, with his brother Court, May Airplanes Ltd. in 1919.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/may_w/may_w.html (110 words)

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