David Coke was a WWIIFlying ace. He flew a Hawker Hurricane. He fought in the Battle of Britain, the Balkans Campaign, and the Syrian campaign. If he was not shot down and killed later in Syria he would of been the Earl of Leicester. He was also great friends with famed authorRoald Dahl during the syrian campaign and the balkans campaign. German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... A flying ace is a military aviator who has shot down five or more enemy aircraft. ... The Hawker Hurricane is a fighter design from the 1930s which was used extensively by the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain. ... A major campaign of World War II, the Battle of Britain is the name for the attempt by Germanys Luftwaffe the German airforce to gain air superiority of British airspace and the Royal Air Force (RAF). ... The Balkans Campaign was the Italian and German invasion of the Yugoslavia and Greece during the Second World War. ... The Syria-Lebanon campaign was the Allied invasion of Vichy French-controlled Syria and Lebanon in 1941, during World War II. The Allied offensive, also known as Operation Exporter, was aimed at preventing Nazi Germany from using Vichy territory as a springboard for attacks on the Allied stronghold of Egypt... The Earl of Leicester was created in the 12th century as a title in the Peerage of England (title now extinct), and is currently a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, created in 1837. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1954 Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916 – November 23, 1990) was a British novelist and short story author of Norwegian descent, famous as a writer for both children and adults. ...
Coke acknowledges he is a central figure in a burgeoning global campaign by nonprofits -- commonly known abroad as nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs -- that has cost it millions of dollars in lost sales and legal fees in India, and growing damage to its reputation elsewhere.
Coke officials acknowledge, for example, that they violated their own global safety standards by failing to conduct any toxicity tests on a dump site used by its biggest plant in India until after a Wall Street Journal reporter visited it in March.
Coke and Pepsi, which together hold about a 95% market share of soft-drink sales in India, disputed the lab results and say their products are safe.
Coke counters that it uses only a very small portion of India's available water and said there was no scientific evidence the company was to blame for shortages.
Coke attributes falling water tables to drought and India's monsoons, finicky rains that sweep the subcontinent from June to October.
Coke's economic impact, however, is often dismissed by activists, many of whom are from the United States.
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