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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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Turley, Morvan D. – KIA

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Morvan Darrell Turley - KIA

Preferred Name: Morvan
Nickname/Call Sign: Morv
Date of Birth: September 9, 1936
Highest Military Grade: 0-3 – Captain
Hometown: Kansas City, MO
Headed West Date: January 13, 1967
Biography
Pilot Information

United States Air Force Captain Turley disappeared on a combat mission over Phouc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. Nine months later, the wreckage of his aircraft F-100 #56-3448 was found and Captain Turley was brought home to his family for burial on October 23, 1967.

Captain Turley is buried at Ft Leavenworth Nat Cemetery and is honored on the Vietnam Memorial Wall 14E025.

Captain Turley graduated from Westport high school and attended Metropolitan Junior College Kansas City. He was a former member of Boy Scout troop No 78 and the tribe of Mic-OSay.

 

 

 

 

Sources: Bio info/Photo – HonorStates.org; Findagrave.com;

Units Assigned

  • 8/9/1966-1/13/1967 352nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, 35th Tactical Fighter Wing, 7th Air Force, Phan Rang, Vietnam (F-100)

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Purple Heart
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F-100

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Civilian Education: 

  • Westport High School
  • Metropolitan Junior College Kansas City

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