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Record attack lifts airman to near space height
Maj Howard Carrol Johnson, 38, nicknamed Scrappy, set a new ground level takeoff record by flying a Lockheed F104A Starfighter to 17.28 miles altitude. Born in Knoxville, he grew up in Louisville and Greensboro, later marrying Doris Jean and settling with children Theodore and Carol in Novato California.
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Howard Carrol Johnson
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Greensboro
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W. A. Cutlip
Howard
Doris Jean R
Novato
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Theodore
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