Clarence A. Shoop(1907-1968)

Col. Clarence A. "Shoopy" Shoop was a reconnaissance pilot during World War II, flying the first photographic mission over Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day. In 1945, he was Base Commander at Muroc Army Field. Later a two-star general, Shoop was a vice president of Hughes Aircraft Company and the head of flight testing for Howard Hughes, as well as Commander-in-Chief of the Air National Guard of California until he died in 1968. He was married to actress Julie Bishop (born Jacqueline Wells), and they had two children: physician Steven Shoop and actress Pamela Susan Shoop.