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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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Graves, Henry Lee, Jr.

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Henry Lee Graves, Jr.

Preferred Name: Lee
Date of Birth: August 12, 1945
Highest Military Grade: 0-6 – Colonel
Hometown: TX
Headed West Date: January 5, 2021
Biography
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After serving in the USAF, Lee Graves became the owner of LGL Enterprises.

 

Units Assigned

  • 1969-1995 Served in the USAF
  • 162nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, AZANG
  • 924th Fighter Wing Commander
  • 1995 Base commander, Bergstrom AFB, TX

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F-100

Military & Civilian Education

Civilian Education:

  • 1967 BA/Accounting, Texas A&M University
  • 1978 MA, Pepperdine University

Henry Lee Graves, Jr. (Col USAF, Ret) “Headed West” on January 5, 2021.

Lee Graves graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and later received an MA from Pepperdine University.

He served in the USAF from 1969-1995, including an assignment in Vietnam.

Graves is survived by wife Linda, as well as children Henry L. Graves, III and Leah M. Montgomery

A service was held on Saturday, 12 June 2021,at St Philips United Methodist Church, Round Rock, TX and included a flyover salute.

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