Korea

Robert Leon Sellers, Jr.

Rate / Rank
1st LT

Birthdate
April 19 1928

Date of Death
September 1 2017

Branch
USAF

Active Duty Service
May 15 1951 - November 30 1953

Conflicts & Campaigns

Cold War, liaison for 40 former German scientists, one of which was Wernher von Braun, who escaped Nazi Germany, instrumental in developing the rocket propulsion for the Apollo Project.

Significant Duty Stations

Instructor for Reading Laboratory Academy Division, Wright-Patterson AFB, Air Force Institute of Technology.

Notes

Moved to Cairo in 1953. Graduated from Auburn University 1949 at age 22 and enrolled in ROTC. He joined the United States Air Force in 1951. Burial; Greenwood Cemetery, Cairo, Grady County, Georgia.