John Thomas Blackburn (January 24, 1912 – March 21, 1994) was an American naval aviator, World War II flying ace, [2 ] and the first commanding officer of the famed F4U Corsair squadron VF-17 Jolly Rogers.
John Jacob Thomas, who published as J. J. Thomas (1841 – 1889) was a Trinidadian linguist and writer. [1 ] He wrote a grammar of Trinidadian French Creole (1869), but is best known for Froudacity (1889), a rebuttal of J.