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Roy Yeager 1916 - 1980

Roy Yeager of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas was born on February 1, 1916, and died at age 64 years old in April 1980.
Roy Yeager
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas 66612
February 1, 1916
April 1980
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Roy Yeager's History: 1916 - 1980

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    1916

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    February 1, 1916
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    1980

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    April 1980
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    Roy Yeager lived 9 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 64.
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In 1916, in the year that Roy Yeager was born, in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.
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In 1927, Roy was merely 11 years old when aviator and media darling Charles Lindbergh, age 25, made the first successful solo TransAtlantic flight. "Lucky Lindy" took off from Long Island in New York and flew to Paris, covering  3,600 statute miles and flying for 33 1⁄2-hours. His plane "The Spirit of St. Louis" was a fabric-covered, single-seat, single-engine "Ryan NYP" high-wing monoplane designed by both Lindbergh and the manufacturer's chief engineer.
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