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5 unusual facts about Roy Marlin Voris


Roy Marlin Voris

He briefly considered a career as a mortician, but instead decided to enroll in Salinas Junior College, receiving his Associate's degree there in 1939.

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In the Summer of 1947, Voris was attached to the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C. (where he spent the next two years); he also married his high school sweetheart, Thea.

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Upon his retirement from the Navy, Captain Voris went to work for the Grumman Corporation in Bethpage, New York, assisting in the development of the Navy's F-14 Tomcat and NASA's Lunar Module.

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There are pictures of 27 of the unit's Aces including Roy "Butch" Voris, later to become Blue Angel 1 in the original Blue Angels flight demonstration team, Connie Hargreaves, who became an Ace in a Day, and Wilbur "Spider" Webb, another Ace in a Day.

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Roy Marlin Voris (1919–2005), American aviator and World War II flying ace



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