Edward G. Uhl was from Elizabeth, New Jersey. He attended Lehigh University on a ROTC scholarship. He graduated with an engineering degree in 1940. He served in the U.S. Army under Maj. Leslie Skinner, an Army rocket researcher. Together they invented the bazooka, the shoulder-firing grenade launcher. This bazooka invention was the forerunner of all subsequent rocket-propelled grenade launchers. He eventually reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After World War II, Mr. Uhl helped set up the test firings of German rocketeer Wernher von Braun’s V2 at White Sands, New Mexico. After demobilization from the Army in 1947, Mr. Uhl joined the Glenn L. Martin Co. where he led development of pilotless aircraft or missiles. He joined Ryan Aeronautical Co. in 1959. In 1961, he was named Fairchild Industries CEO succeeding the founder Sherman G. Fairchild. During his directorship, Fairchild acquired a number of aeronautical companies such as Republic Aviation Corp. By the 1960’s von Braun was chief of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Mr. Uhl worked closely with von Braun on the Pegasus satellite project. Uhl and von Braun were good friends and hunting buddies going on many hunting trips. Mr. Uhl was married twice and has two sons and a daughter with his first wife Maurine Keleher Uhl and two stepdaughters from his second wife Mary Stuart Uhl. He died May 9, 2010.