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Douglas Dayton. Douglas James Dayton (December 2, 1924 – July 5, 2013) was an American retail executive, businessman, and philanthropist and heir to the Dayton's Company fortune who was the co-founder of the Target discount stores chain. Dayton ran Target's operations during its early years and served as the company's first president.
Target's president, Douglas J. Dayton, returned to the parent Dayton Corporation and was succeeded by William A. Hodder. Senior vice-president and founder John Geisse left the company. Geisse was later hired by St. Louis–based May Department Stores, where he founded the Venture Stores chain. Target Stores ended the year with eleven units and ...
Douglas Dayton (grandson) Mark Dayton (great-grandson) George Draper Dayton (March 6, 1857 – February 18, 1938) was an American businessman and philanthropist, most famous for being the founder of Dayton's department store, which later became Target Corporation. [1][2]
Douglas C-54 Skymaster. The Douglas C-54 Skymaster is a four-engined transport aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and the Korean War. Like the Douglas C-47 Skytrain derived from the DC-3, the C-54 Skymaster was derived from a civilian airliner, the Douglas DC-4. Besides transport of cargo, the C-54 also carried ...
Geisse was born on September 1, 1920, [2] in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of aeronautical inventor John Harlin and Esther (née Wattawa) Geisse. [3] He grew up in the Washington, D.C., area [3] and attended St. John's College High School. [4] He was set to graduate from the United States Naval Academy with the class of 1942, [1][5][6] until the ...
Contents. Douglas Aircraft Company. The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace and defense company based in Southern California. Founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas Sr., it merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas, where it operated as a division. McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing in 1997.
Douglas A-1 Skyraider Wiley Coyote at the 2019 Fort Worth Alliance Air Show. Airworthy. AD-1. 9257 – based at the Warbird Heritage Foundation in Waukegan, Illinois. [8][9] AD-4. 123827 – based at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia. [10][11] 126997 – privately owned in Houston, Texas.
List of surviving Douglas A-26 Invaders. The A-26 Invader (B-26 between 1948–1965) was a twin-engined light attack bomber, built by the Douglas Aircraft Co. during World War II, that also saw service during several other conflicts in the post-war era of the latter 20th century.