Oscar Westover
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Oscar Westover (July 23, 1883 - September 21, 1938) was a major general and chief of the United States Army Air Corps when he died.
He was born in Bay City, Michigan and enlisted in the Army when he was 18. He began his service as a private beffore being appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from there in 1906 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant.
During World War I, he served as a major in the Signal Corps, before being transferred into the Air Corps. He was named assistant chief of the Air Corps in 1931. In 1935, he succeeded Benjamin Foulois as chief of the Army Air Corps.
He died, aged 55, in a plane crash in 1938. The small two seater he was flying in perfect weather crashed short of the runway at Lockheed Aircraft's air field in Burbank, California, now known as Bob Hope Airport. Westover's plane crashed into a house at 1007 Scott Road in Burbank. No one on the ground was killed, but the other passenger in the plane also died.
Westover was succeeded by Hap Arnold.
Oscar Westover is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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