Diplomatic Passport WWII B-26 Bomber-Pilot

This is the diplomatic passport of U.S. Army Air Corps Lt. Col. Robert Alan Zaiser of Burlington, a 1938 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a senior B-26 bomber pilot during World War II (17th Bombardment Group), and commanding officer of Muroc Flight Test Base (Later renamed Edwards Air Force Base) in California at the dawn of jet flight. Gold Star recipient. Born on August 29, 1914 – he died in a C-45 plane crash on February 13, 1947. Diplomatic Passport WWII Bomber-Pilot

During World War II, his wife Marion Llewellyn Brown Zaiser (Snider) was an airplane spotter and weather observer and led the Junior American Red Cross. They married in 1939. The United States Foreign Service List records Zaiser as Military Air Attache in Greece in Sep. 1945 and in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1946 (see pictures).

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