Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-JUN-03
Format: Online - approximately 1486 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
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General Robert J. Dixon
1920-2003
Retired United States Air Force Gen. Robert J. Dixon died of cancer on March 21,2003, at his home in Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas. A memorial service was held at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, and funeral services at the Protestant Chapel, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
General Dixon retired from the U.S. Air Force as Commander of the Tactical Air Command on April 30, 1978. He was a command pilot with more than 5,000 hours of flying time. He was born in New York City on April 9, 1920. After graduation from Dartmouth College in 1941, with a BA degree in Literature, he entered pilot training in the U.S. Army Air Corps, followed by training in the Royal Canadian Air Force and was commissioned a pilot officer in the RCAF. He transferred to the Army Air Corps in 1943 as a first lieutenant, serving in the United Kingdom. After assuming command of the 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in 1944, he was shot down over an oil refinery in Germany and taken prisoner. He was a prisoner of war until May 1945.
General Dixon flew twenty-eight combat missions in F-86s before the armistice in the Korean War. He was the Vice Commander of the Seventh Air Force during the Vietnam War where he flew thirty-six combat missions in the F-4, RF-4...
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