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Medal Of Honor Recipient Harry Martin was a First Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. At the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as platoon leader attached to Company C, 5th Pioneer Battalion, 5th Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 26 March 1945. With […]
Walter K. Singleton was a Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, Company A, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3d Marine Division. He earned the Congressional Medal Of Honor for his daring attack on enemy forces. Sgt. Singleton’s company was conducting combat operations when the lead platoon received intense small arms, automatic weapons, rocket, and mortar fire from a […]
The first crewed Gemini flight, Gemini III, lifted off Launch Pad 19 at 9:24 a.m. EST on March 23, 1965. The spacecraft “Molly Brown” carried astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, command pilot, and John W. Young, pilot, on three orbits of Earth. NASA’s two-man Gemini spaceflights demonstrated that astronauts could change their capsule’s orbit, remain […]
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