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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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Holl, Carl W., Jr.

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Carl W. Holl, Jr.

Preferred Name: Carl
Nickname/Call Sign: Doc
Date of Birth: October 14, 1933
Highest Military Grade: 0-6 – Colonel
Hometown: N. Manchester, IN
Carl W. Holl, Jr. - before
Carl W. Holl, Jr. - now
Biography
Pilot Information

“We have fond memories of our USAF experience.

A Great USAF adventure was as the first flight surgeon assigned to Northcourt.”

Units Assigned

1956-1958 AFIT Indiana University
1958-1959 AFIT UCLA
1959-1961 493rd TFS RAF Lakenheath (F-100F, T-33, C-47)
1961-1962 19th TRS RAF Bruntingthorpe (RB-66; C-47)
1963-1966 AFIT UCLA
1967-1969 Wilford Hall USAF Hospital
1969-1973 USAF Hospital Wiesbaden; Hyperbaric chamber
1973-1976 USAF Hospital Keesler
1976-1996 Community Hospitals Indianapolis
1996-present Noblesville, IN (tree farm)

Awards & Decorations

Flight Info

F-100
T-2
C-47
RB-66

Military & Civilian Education

Military Education:

  • 1959 Primary Course in Aviation Medicine
  • 1971 Primary Hyperbaric Medicine Course

Civilian Education:

  • 1954 Manchester College A.B.
  • 1958 MD, Indiana University
  • 1959 UCLA Surgical Internship
  • 1966 UCLA Radiology Residency

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