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Héctor Quintanilla
Hector Quintanilla Jr. (May 7, 1923 – May 18, 1998) was a United States Air Force (USAF) Lieutenant Colonel, best known as the last chief officer of Project Blue Book, the USAF's official unidentified flying object investigative arm. Biography Quintanilla was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico and immigrated to the United States at age six with his parents and three brothers in 1929. He and his family crossed the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge in Laredo, Texas. His family made their home in the west side of San Antonio, Texas around the Laredo and Martin street neighborhoods; the family could only afford a $1.25 a week shack with a dirt floor. Hector and his brothers did not mind, because they mostly wore their shoes on Sundays to go to church. At age seven, he was selling newspapers for the ''San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio Express'' and ''San Antonio Light'', mornings and evenings, around the Baptist Medical Hospital area. Quintanilla constructed ...
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Hector Quintanilla Who Became Chief Of Ufo Project Blue Book In August 1963
In Greek mythology, Hector (; , ) was a Trojan prince, a hero and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. He is a major character in Homer's ''Iliad'', where he leads the Trojans and their allies in the defense of Troy, killing countless Greek warriors. He is ultimately killed in single combat by the Greek hero Achilles, who later drags his dead body around the city of Troy behind his chariot. Etymology In Greek, is a derivative of the verb wikt:ἔχειν, ἔχειν ''ékhein'', archaic form * ('to have' or 'to hold'), from Proto-Indo-European *''wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/seǵʰ-, seɡ́ʰ-'' ('to hold'). , or as found in Aeolic poetry, is also an epithet of Zeus in his capacity as 'he who holds [everything together]'. Hector's name could thus be taken to mean 'holding fast'. The name was in use during Mycenaean Greece, Mycenaean times, as evidenced by a servant with the name referred to in a Linear B tablet. In the tablet, the name is spell ...
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