Robert S. Webb was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Air Forces who flew 55 straight missions over Germany and Italy as a B-17 pilot during World War II. He was one of the youngest bomber pilots in the Army Air Forces. During the war, he earned the Distinguished Flying Cross with eight oak leaf clusters.
The movie and television series Twelve O'Clock High used a stock shot of Colonel Webb's bringing in a highly damaged B-17 bomber to a base in England.
He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
