- Featured in Sloan's Liniment advertising in 1947.
- Clayton, Rose, and Bob Behee were touring with the Fernandez Circus, set up at the Scofield Air Base, ten miles from Honolulu in early December 1941. The Behees were living in Honolulu at the time and were sleeping when the bombing by the Japanese began. On December 8th the circus was dismantled. The Behees took all the performer costumes to their Honolulu apartment where they were picked up that evening. When the attack occurred the Behees had been in Hawaii for five months. They were not able to get transportation back to the homeland until February 21, 1942.
- On June 8, 1939 Rose Behee suffered severe bruises during the Flying Behees Cole Bros. Circus aerial act when she was thrown to the ground when the safety net collapsed during the afternoon performance. Despite strains to her left side she was able to appear during the evening performance at Mill Park in Pottstown, Pennsylvania USA.
- Played at the Winnipeg Amphitheater in early May 1949. Known as the Flying Thrillers on that occasion the troupe consisted of Rose Behee, George Voise, and Jack Bray. A surprise highlight during their Shrine Circus visit was an 18th birthday matinee serenade and follow-up party thrown by the friends of Rose Behee. Jack Bray and George Voise were in attendance along with Jimmy Davison (clown boxer), Gaby (acrobat comedian and clown boxer) and Margaret DeKoe (clown), George LaSalle (acrobat and clown), Dick "Rocko" Lewis (clown), Eva (trapeze artist) and Joe Lewis (cop clown), Mickey McDonald (clown), and Earl Shipley (clown).
- On July 6, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut Clayton and Rose Behee were among the performers in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus show when a sudden fire engulfed the mammoth main tent and reduced all of the circus equipment to ashes. There were 168 (of 6,000) spectators killed by the fire. The Behees escaped.
- Appeared at the Shrine Circus at Broadway Auditorium in Buffalo, New York on March 25, 1940.
- Appeared on the cover of the May 19, 1947 issue of Newsweek and in the March 1948 National Geographic Magazine. The Newsweek cover pictured Clayton and Rose Behee and clown, Paul Jung. The magazine's feature article was "The Big Show.".
- In Australia in 1950 performing with Wirth's Circus Clayton Behee was grabbed by one foot when "the catcher" missed his outstretched arms. The catcher swung him by the foot for 25 feet until he could drop him 25 feet to the stage floor apron. This occurred in a theater, not a circus tent. Clayton injured his spine and was unable to perform for the next two months. When he returned his brother, Bob Behee, became his catcher.
- The Flying Behees were the highlight of the second annual Intramural Sports Festival held in April 1941 at Hoff Gym at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois USA. A fifteen minute performance was climaxed by a full twisting double somersault blindfolded by Clayton Behee, the only man at that time to ever perfume that feat. The team included Clayton and Rose Behee, and Carl Lasiter, the "catcher." Rose performed a forward over somersault.
- Rose Sullivan Behee was the sister of Eileen Voise, wife of George Voise. Both sister and brother-in-law of Rose also performed with the Flying Behees.
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