A Roger Conant


 | Died : 10 / 3 / 2007 |
| Lieutenant Colonel A Roger Conant (deceased)
Enlisting in the U.S. Navy, Roger Conant received his wings as a Marine pilot in 1942. Assigned to VMF 215 he flew the Chance Vought F4U Corsair on well over 100 combat missions, mostly in the air battles over Rabaul and the Solomon Islands where he downed a total of 6 Japanese Mitsubishi Zeros. He was on his return to the Pacific theater as a night fighter pilot on the day war ended. Later he served again in Korea. Retiring from the Marine Corps as a Lt. Col., he then began work as a test pilot for Douglas Aircraft (McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing). Roger Conant USMC(R) passed away on March 10, 2007. |