Robert Friend
Robert Friend may refer to * Robert Friend (poet) (1913–1998), American poet * Robert Friend (pilot) (1920–2019), US Air Force lieutenant colonel and Tuskegee Airman * Bob Friend (newscaster) Bob Friend, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MBE (20 January 1938 – 8 October 2008) was one of the original news anchors for the Sky News channel from its launch in 1989 until his retirement in late 2003. Journalism car ...

Robert Friend (pilot)
Robert Jones Friend (February 29, 1920 – June 21, 2019) was an American military officer and pilot who served with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and led the USAF's Project Blue Book from 1958 to 1963. He also served during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He had a 28-year military career. Early life and education Friend was born in Columbia, South Carolina on February 29, 1920. From an early age, he loved airplanes and wanted to sign up to fly for the army, but he was turned away because he was black. He attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and studied aviation. Military career During World War II, Friend had 142 combat missions. After WWII began the army began a segregated program for black pilots in Tuskegee, Alabama. Friend immediately signed up and completed training. The U.S. Army Air Corps commissioned him as an officer in the 332nd Fighter Group. He was sent to Africa and later Europe. After World War II, Friend stayed in the service and eventually ...
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Robert Friend (poet)
Robert Friend (November 25, 1913 – January 12, 1998) was an American-born poet and translator. After moving to Israel, he became a professor of English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Biography Friend was born in 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants. He was the eldest of five children. After studying at Brooklyn College, Harvard and Cambridge, he taught English literature and writing in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Panama, France, England, and Germany. He settled in Israel in 1950, where he lived the rest of his life. He taught English and American Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for over thirty years. He was well known in Israel as an English-language poet and a translator of Hebrew poetry. Robert Friend was homosexual, gay, and his sexuality found expression in his poetry well before the Stonewall riots, Stonewall era. According to Edward Field in the ''Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry'', ''Shadow on the ...
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