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View a eulogy for Charles Whitney Oliver, USMA '49, who passed away on November 2, 2017.

Charles Whitney Oliver

West Point, 1949

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by Terry Powers on December 12, 2022:

Col Charles W. Oliver (USAF, Ret), graduated at the top of the 1949 class at the US Military Academy at West Point ith a B.S. in Engineering.

He served for 30 years in the Air Force earning seven distinguished service decorations including the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star.

He was a talented tennis player. He was the number one tennis player in the US from the time he was a freshman in high school until he left West Point.

After retiring from the Air Force he served as a tennis professional at the Philadelphia Cricket Club.

He was the father of five children, grandfather of 12, and great grandfather of seven.

Source: Find A Grave

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