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  2. Robin Olds - Wikipedia

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    Robin Olds [1] (born Robert Oldys Jr.; July 14, 1922 – June 14, 2007) was an American fighter pilot and general officer in the United States Air Force (USAF). He was a "triple ace", with a combined total of 17 victories in World War II and the Vietnam War. [2] He retired in 1973 as a brigadier general, after 30 years of service.

  3. Commandant of Cadets of the United States Air Force Academy

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    Robin Olds: 1967: 1971 ~4 years: USMA 1943 [c] [7] 7: Brigadier General Walter T. Galligan: 1971: 1973 ~2 years: USMA 1945 [8] 8: Brigadier General Hoyt S. Vandenberg ...

  4. Ella Raines - Wikipedia

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    Ella Wallace Raines (August 6, 1920 [1] – May 30, 1988) was an American film and television actress active from the early 1940s through the mid-1950s. Described as "sultry" and "mysterious", the green-eyed star [2] appeared frequently in crime pictures and film noir, but also in drama, comedy, Westerns, thrillers, and romance.

  5. Daniel James Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Daniel James Jr. was born on February 11, 1920, to Daniel and Lillie Anna (Brown) James. Daniel James Sr. worked for the Pensacola city gas company, while his mother, Lillie Anna James, was a high school teacher who established a private school for her own and other Black children in Pensacola, Florida. [2]

  6. Action of 23 August 1967 - Wikipedia

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    The operation, led by Colonel Robin Olds, turned out to be a major success after seven North Vietnamese MiG-21 fighters of the VPAF 921st Fighter Regiment were shot down. Stung by that devastating defeat, the North Vietnamese Air Force grounded their fighter force several times between June and August 1967, in order to work on their training ...

  7. Lockheed P-38 Lightning - Wikipedia

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    Robin Olds was the last P-38 ace in the 8th Air Force and the last in the ETO. Flying a P-38J, he downed five German fighters on two separate missions over France and Germany. He subsequently transitioned to P-51s and scored seven more kills. After World War II, he flew F-4 Phantom IIs in Vietnam, ending his career as brigadier general with 16 ...

  8. Taylor Swift’s ‘Robin’ lyrics: What does the song mean?

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    Among those 15 additional songs on the second part of “Tortured Poets” is a track called “Robin,” a piano ballad in which Swift draws imagery of animals and alludes to adolescence.

  9. Robert Olds - Wikipedia

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    Robert Olds (June 15, 1896 – April 28, 1943) was a general officer in the United States Army Air Forces, theorist of strategic air power, and proponent of an independent United States Air Force. Olds is best known today as the father of Brig. Gen. Robin Olds , a " triple ace " fighter pilot of World War II and the Vietnam War .