Bend / Central Oregon News, Sports, Business, Weather, Entertainment, Classifieds and Local & State Headlines | The Bulletin

Use Advanced Search to filter by date and category. *keyword is required in search field.
start date (MM-DD-YYYY):
 -  - 
end date (MM-DD-YYYY):
 -  - 
category:
Archive Home > 2001 > July > 28 > Famed flying ace dies in Terrebonne

Famed flying ace dies in Terrebonne

Editor's note: A version of this story appeared only in a later edition of The Bulletin on Friday.

By Ted Taylor / The Bulletin
July 28, 2001

Rex T. Barber, the Air Force fighter ace many believe shot down Japanese military leader Yamamoto in World War II, died Thursday at his home in Terrebonne. He was 84.

Barber, who was born in Culver in 1917 and graduated from Oregon State University in 1940, was hospitalized in May for pneumonia....

Read complete article

Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.