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Dean P. Joy served as a combat infantryman with Patton's
Third Army in France, Germany and Austria during World
War II. In 1950 he received an MS degree in Aeronautical
Engineering at the University of Colorado, and began his
aerospace industry career as a helicopter flight test engineer
and aerodynamicist at Hiller Helicopters in Palo Alto,
California.
His forty years in the defense industry included employment
as a helicopter operations consultant for the French Ministry
of Defense in Paris and Algeria, and for thirty years, from
1961 until his retirement in 1991, as systems analysis
manager and senior advisor at Lockheed Missiles & Space
Company in Sunnyvale, California. He and his wife life in
Los Gatos, California.

Books by Dean Joy

Sixty Days in Combat

An Infantryman's Memoir of World War II in Europe

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