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This Day in History – June 10, 1969 – The X-15 gets a place in history

10 June 1969: The U.S. Air Force donated the first North American Aviation X-15, serial number 56-6670, to the Smithsonian Institution for display at the National Air and Space Museum. The first of three X-15A hypersonic research rocketplanes built by North American for the Air Force and the National Advisory Committee (NACA, the predecessor of NASA), 56-6670 made the first glide flight and

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Andrews, George R. – KIA

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George Robert Andrews

Preferred Name: George
Date of Birth: November 4, 1943
Highest Military Grade: 0-3 – Captain
Hometown: Jefferson, MD
Headed West Date: October 15, 1969
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Capt George Robert Andrews was born on November 4, 1943, in the District of Columbia.  He was serving with the 615th TFS out of Phan Rang AB, Vietnam. This was George’s 2nd tour of Vietnam. He had only been in the country two days before flying his F-100D #563069 on a close air support mission near Thuy Dong, about 30 miles west of Saigon. His aircraft was hit by ground fire as he was making a weapons run against an enemy sampan.

Captain Andrews did not eject before the aircraft impacted in an un-survivable crash.

George had a wife and two children at the time of the crash. He is buried at Jefferson Reformed Church Cem, Jefferson, Frederick Co, Maryland. (1)

Capt. Andrews is remembered by the Big Spring Vietnam Memorial and by the Permian Basin Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial. He was married to Gayle Carrol Andrews of Big Spring. A son born in Big Spring in 1964 later served in the U.S. Army.

Source: https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/1164/GEORGE-R-ANDREWS/

Units Assigned

  •  1/1969-7/1969 Pilot Training, Luke AFB, AZ (F-100)
  • 1969 615th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 35th Tactical Fighter Wing, 7th AF, Phan Rang, AB, Vietnam (F-100)

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Distinguished Flying Cross
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