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Taylor, Robert (born Spangler Arlington Brugh, Jr.), LT.
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Contact Info
Home Town Filley
Last Address Beverly Hills, CA
Date of Passing Jun 08, 1969
Location of Interment Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Glendale, California
Wall/Plot Coordinates Garden of Honor Columbarium of the Evening Star
Other Memories With the arrival of World War II, Taylor entered in the U.S. Navy where he served under his given name of Spangler Arlington Brugh. In 1943 he Enlisted in the Naval Air Corps; was commissioned as a lieutenant but was deemed to old for active service. As USNR, he became a flight instructor for the Naval Air Transport division and served from 1943 to 1945.
He contributed greatly to the war effort, serving as a flying instructor and,narrating the 1944 documentary "The Fighting Lady". He also directed 17 United States Navy training films during World War II.
His flying interest emerged after the movie Flight Command (1940), when he bought a single-engine plane and took lessons for a pilot's license. After World War II, when he served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945 as a flight instructor and narrator of 17 trainings films, MGM bought him a twin-engine Beechcraft which he flew regularly until the early 1960s.