Royal B. Allison

Royal Bertram Allison (April 22, 1919 – October 31, 1995) was a United States Air Force lieutenant general and a bomber pilot during World War II. He later served as the principal military adviser on U.S. government's Strategic Arms Limitation Talks negotiating team.

Early life Allison was born in Harlan, Oregon, in 1919. He graduated from high school in Portland, Oregon, and studied civil engineering at Oregon State College.

During the war, he flew over flew 90 combat missions in the B-25 and participated in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations campaigns in Sicily, Sardinia, Italy, Corsica and Southern France. He also received the Distinguished Flying Cross, Soldier's Medal and Air Medal with 13 oak leaf clusters. He remained with the 310th BG until the end of World War II.

After retirement from the Air Force, Allison resided in Washington, D.C., where he was a consultant to an airline and an oil company, and at the same time developed his own business interests. In the final eight years of his life, he lived in Palm Beach, Florida.

Allison died on October 31, 1995, at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, at the age of 76, due to cancer. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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