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Dibb, Robert Allan Murray, LCDR.
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Contact Info
Home Town Burbank
Last Address Inyokern, CA
Date of Passing Aug 29, 1944
Location of Interment Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Glendale, California
Wall/Plot Coordinates Plot: Whispering Pines, Map 3, Lot 1244, Space 2
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Last Known Activity:
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Robert A. Dibb, after whom Dibb Road on NAWC China Lake is named, was killed when a five-inch AR rocket with a dummy head, fired for a rocket night calibration, ricocheted 500 feet into the air and took off one wing of his F6F-5 Hellcat (BuNo 58818.) He pulled out at 600 feet, and the rocket body struck him from above, carrying away the right wing hinge fitting, causing the right wing to come off. Lt. Dibb was an ace with 7 aerial victories.
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