Erik Brann, Ron Bushy, Lee Dorman, and Doug Ingle of Iron Butterfly.

Doug Ingle, a founding member and lead singer of Iron Butterfly,
has passed away. No cause of death stated.

Fox News confirmed on Monday that the "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
singer died on Friday evening May 24.

Between 1974 and 1978, Ingle managed a recreational vehicle
park in the Los Angeles National Forest. He spent time painting
houses in Oregon, Washington and California.

1968 release

 
Bill Walton with the Portland Trail Blazers (1974–1979)

William Theodore Walton III (November 5, 1952 – May 27, 2024)

PORTLAND, Ore. — Former Portland Trail Blazers legend Bill         
Walton lost his battle with cancer.

Walton rose to fame as part of the team that brought Portland its
only NBA Championship in 1977.

The Grapes Of Wrath

Darryl Hickman (right) with Mickey Rooney in 1941’s ‘Men of Boys Town.’  

Darryl Gerard Hickman (July 28, 1931 – May 22, 2024)

Darryl Hickman, who started his career in Hollywood as a child
star before going on to appear in more than 40 movies, has died
at the age of 92. His family confirmed that Hickman died on
Wednesday. In one of his biggest roles he played Winfield, the
youngest member of the Joad family in John Ford’s film adaption
of The Grapes Of Wrath (1940) when he was just eight-years-old.

Bismarck firing at HMS Prince of Wales.

On May 24, 1941, Germany’s largest and most modern of Germany’s 
battleships battleship, the Bismarck, sank the pride of the British
fleet, HMS Hood.

Less than 10 minutes after the British opened fire, a shell from 
Bismarck struck Hood near her aft ammunition magazines.

Soon afterwards, Hood exploded and sank within three minutes,
with the loss of all but three of her crew. Prince of Wales
continued to exchange fire with Bismarck but suffered serious malfunctions in her main armament.

    
    
    
    
On May 23, 1934, notorious bandits and serial murderers Bonnie
Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death by Texas and
Louisiana state police near Sailes, Louisiana.

 
   
 Death car on display in the Bonnie & Clyde Ambush Museum
in Gibsland, La.  

Actual photos of the ambush aftermath are also presented at the museum along with one of Clyde’s Remington shotguns, a tire
Clyde stole and gave to an old man who kept it as a souvenir;
Bonnie’s red hat, some glass from the death car windshield,
and replicas of Bonnie and Clyde’s tombstones in a simulated
graveyard. There’s also a large mural that fills one wall recreating
the moment of the ambush.