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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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Webb, Marion S., Jr.

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Marion S. Webb, Jr.

Preferred Name: Skip
Nickname/Call Sign: Skipper
Date of Birth: December 19, 1927
Highest Military Grade: 0-4 – Major
Hometown: Wewoka, OK
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Marion “Skip” Webb, was a Flight Commander with the 4517th Combat Crew Training Squadron, “TOPHATS” in the mid-1960s at Luke AFB, AZ. He also flew in Vietnam.

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  • 4517th Combat Crew Training Squadron, “TOPHATS”, Flight Commander, Luke AFB, AZ (F-100)
  • Vietnam

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Marion “Skip” Webb, Jr., USAF, Ret., “Headed West” on March 20, 2012.

Marion “Skip” Webb, Jr. was born December 19, 1927 in Wewoka , OK. and went home to be with the Lord on March 20, 2012. Skip retired from the United States Air Force as a fighter pilot and was an active member of Houston First Baptist Church .

He is survived by wife, Peggy J. Webb; children, James Webb and wife Karen, Cynthia Ruiz and husband Ed, David Webb and wife Angie, step-son, Blake Merrow and wife Kristina, mother-in-law, Ethel Humphries; brothers, Jack Webb and wife Vaughn and George Mulvaney; 8 grandchildren; numerous other relatives and many friends.

The family will receive friends 10:30 am., Friday, March 23, 2012 at Houston First Baptist Church, 7401 Katy Fwy, Houston , TX 77024, with an 11:30 am. funeral service. Graveside service will be held 2:30 pm. Friday at Memorial Oaks Cemetery in Houston, TX.

Published in Houston Chronicle on March 22, 2012

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