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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.

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.

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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