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| Robert Tompkins Blake |
| No. 13188 • 25 May 1919 – 30 November 2005 |
| Interment: Georgia National Cemetery, Canton, Georgia |
 UPON GRADUATION, the Army assigned me to a field artillery battalion in the 95th Infantry Division. After participating in Louisiana, desert, and mountain maneuvers, the division deployed through England to France, landing on Omaha Beach in August 1944. After participating in four campaigns, I returned with the division to the United States in June 1945. I married a Brooklyn girl, born in Ireland, that I had met on a blind date before going overseas. The Army deactivated the division and assigned me to the Command and Staff College as a student.
While there I was further assigned to the Army’s first guided missile battalion at Fort Bliss. Here the first of our five children was born. I applied for and the Army selected me for two years of civil schooling in guided missiles. Except for one year as a student at the Army War College, the remainder of my career in staff positions involving the development, testing, and evaluation of missiles and nuclear weapons and in commanding missile and nuclear weapons units.
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Originally published in January 1943 50th Anniversary Yearbook |
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After retirement, I worked as a publications editor for Oklahoma State University at Eglin Air Force Base, preparing nuclear weapons effectiveness manuals for the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines under a Department of Defense contract. In 1981, at age 62, I completely retired. My wife, Anne, and I are living a quiet life in Gulf Breeze, Florida, enjoying visits from our children and grandchildren.