Lanphier Credit - NASA

Personal: Male. Born in USA.

Lanphier graduated from Stanford. He served with the Army Air Force in World War II, ending the war as a fighter ace after shooting down nine Japanese aircraft over the south Pacific. He was one of the group that shot down Admiral Yamamoto in 1943. After the war he was a special assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, 1949-1950; then a Vice President of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, 1951-1960; then President of Fairbanks, Morse, and Company, 1960-1962; before becoming Vice President for Corporate Planning of Raytheon in 1962.

• Launius, Roger D, NASA Chief Historian, NASA History Office Home Page, . Accessed at: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/index.html.