Forrest S. Petersen

(1922-1990) born in Holdrege, lived in Gibbon. Businessman, Naval Officer, a Navy and NASA test pilot in the early 1960s, head of Naval Air Systems Command, President of Petersen Baldwin Enterprises, his own aerospace consulting firm. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, February 7, 1960, pp. 10-11 and The Reader's Digest, December 1961, pp.108-113 and Washington Post obituary, December 12, 1990, p. B- 17.

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