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War Museum pays tribute to Vietnam War hero David Lee Sackett

13 November 2021 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

The “Those Who Served” War Museum, Mercer County, West Virginia, has honored the memory of Lt David Lee Sackett who…

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Stanley E Sackett, pilot, Second World War hero

31 July 2021 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

First Lt Stanley Emerson Sackett (1923–1944) was a US Air Force fighter pilot. He was killed in action during the…

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Prof Robert Sackett, pioneering engineer

10 May 2021 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

Professor Robert Sackett combined a career in academia with the most practical of engineering assignments, notably as a pioneer in…

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Herbert Sackett is most married Sackett, and most tragic

17 November 2020 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

The record for the most marriages is held by Herbert Irving Sackett (1871–1939) of Buffalo, New York, who was married…

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“A real soldier just died, men.”

30 April 2020 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

LaVern Fred Sackett was killed in action on 8 December 1944 while serving as a sergeant in the American Expeditionary…

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Was Elizabeth Sacket kidnapped by the Indians?

5 April 2020 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

A rather startling assertion is made in the book Western Massachusetts history: the Westfield area. The author, Stephen Pitoniak, writing…

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Dr David Sackett, pioneer of clinical epidemiology

26 May 2019 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

David Sackett MD (1934–2015) was a Canadian medical doctor and a pioneer in evidence-based medicine who proved that aspirin helps…

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Frederic Moseley Sackett, US Ambassador to Germany

19 December 2018 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

Frederic Moseley Sackett (1868–1941) was the US Ambassador to Germany in the critical early 1930s when Hitler and the Nazi…

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Carl Leroy Sackett, frontiersman and US district attorney

12 May 2018 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

Carl Leroy Sackett (1876–1972), frontiersman and US district attorney, was born in Nebraska but lived all his life from early…

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Thomas Baker Sackett, convicted highway robber

2 March 2018 Chris Sackett Leave a comment

On 13 September 1827, at London’s central criminal court, the Old Bailey, Thomas Baker Sackett was found guilty of assaulting…

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