Robert Webb (USAAF officer)
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Robert S. Webb was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Air Forces who flew 55 straight missions over Germany and Italy as a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot during World War II. He was one of the youngest bomber pilots in the Army Air Forces. During the war, he earned the Distinguished Flying Cross with eight oak leaf clusters.
He was born in Washington, D.C.
The movie and television series Twelve O'Clock High used a stock shot of Colonel Webb's bringing in a highly damaged B-17 bomber to a base in England.
After the war, Webb left the Air Corps and lived in Vienna, Virginia, where he worked as an official of the Virginia Electric Power Company.
He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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