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Robert Keith Glover Davis

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Birth	:	4 Mar 1917 Marion County, Indiana, USA
Death	:	13 Jan 2005 Napa, Napa County, California, USA
Burial	:	Veterans Memorial Grove Cemetery, Yountville, Napa County, USA
Coordinate	:	38.3913340, -122.3711930
Plot	:	Section K, Row 10, Site 12
Inscription	:	M/Sgt U.S. Air Force World War II Korea Vietnam
Description	:	Birth name is Glover. Was adopted as an infant by Benjamin and Etta Davis. Father to Robert Charles, deceased; Mary Esther; Georgia Lee, deceased; and Jo Ellen. Husband to Esther Bernice Rathburn. Served in the U.S. Air Force for 20 years. FIRST IN HISTORY; High Officials Greet the Plane as It Ends Hop at Fort Worth The Lucky Lady II was a functioning B-50 of the 43rd Bombardment Group, equipped with 12 .50-caliber machine guns, with an additional fuel tank added in the bomb bay to provide additional range. The plane had a double crew with three pilots, with each crew... Read More	Birth name is Glover. Was adopted as an infant by Benjamin and Etta Davis. Father to Robert Charles, deceased; Mary Esther; Georgia Lee, deceased; and Jo Ellen. Husband to Esther Bernice Rathburn. Served in the U.S. Air Force for 20 years. FIRST IN HISTORY; High Officials Greet the Plane as It Ends Hop at Fort Worth The Lucky Lady II was a functioning B-50 of the 43rd Bombardment Group, equipped with 12 .50-caliber machine guns, with an additional fuel tank added in the bomb bay to provide additional range. The plane had a double crew with three pilots, with each crew taking a shift of four to six hours on duty and four to six hours off.[1][2] The plane started its round-the-world trip with a crew of 14 under the supervision of Capt. James Gallagher at 12:21 PM on February 26, 1949, from Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas, heading East over the Atlantic Ocean. After flying 23,452 miles (37,742 km), the plane passed the control tower back at Carswell AFB on March 2 at 10:22 AM, marking the end of the circumnavigation, and landed there at 10:31 AM after being in the air for 94 hours and one minute, landing two minutes before the estimated time of arrival calculated at take-off. En route, the plane was refueled four times by B-29 Superfortresses converted into aerial refueling tankers; meeting up above Lajes Air Force Base in the Azores, Dhahran Airfield in Saudi Arabia, Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines and Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, using the soon-to-be obsolete grappled-line looped-hose technique. The plane flew at altitudes between 10,000 to 20,000 feet (3,000 to 6,100 m) and completed the trip around the world at an average ground speed of 249 miles per hour (401 km/h).[1] Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay, Strategic Air Command's commanding general, was on hand to greet the Lucky Lady II upon its arrival, together with dignitaries including Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington, Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg and Major General Roger M. Ramey, commanding general of the Eighth Air Force. LeMay cited the significance of the mission as indicating that the Air Force now had the capability to take off on bombing missions from anywhere in the United States to "any place in the world that required the atomic bomb".[1] He further stated that mid-air refueling could also be used for fighter aircraft. Symington noted that aerial refueling would "turn medium bombers into inter-continental bombers".[1] The plane's crew was honored by the National Aeronautic Association with its annual Mackay Trophy recognizing the outstanding flight of the year and by the Air Force Association with its Air Age Trophy.[2] Another B-50 had taken off on February 25 with the same mission, but was forced to land in the Azores due to an engine fire.[1] Was the flight engineer on the "Lucky Lady II" which was the first non-stop flight around the world.

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Robert Keith Glover Davis's memorial is located at: Veterans Memorial Grove Cemetery, Yountville, Napa County, USA.
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Robert Keith Glover Davis death on 13 Jan 2005 in Napa, Napa County, California, USA
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Latitude: 38.3913340
Longitude: -122.3711930

Family Members:

Parent

Marion Norton Glover Ingals

(1898 - 1978)

Ethel Jane Rough Glover

(1899 - 1918)

Spouse

Esther Bernice Rathburn Davis

(1916 - 2013)

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