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World War II. When the United States entered World War II, Glenn quit college to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Corps. [21] . He was not called to duty by the Army and enlisted as a U.S. Navy aviation cadet in March 1942.
After a year of training, Glenn joined Marine Fighter Squadron 155 and spent a year flying F4Us in the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific flying 57 combat missions. 6 During his World War II service Glenn flew 59 combat missions.
Jan 19, 2017 · John Glenn was the first American to orbit Earth, circling our planet three times in the space capsule he named Friendship 7, on 20 February 1962. The early US space programme was not primarily a...
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As a Marine fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War, Glenn flew 149 missions, withstanding 11 hits by enemy fire. Following the Korean War, he served as a test pilot for several years, working with Navy and Marine Corps jet fighters and attack aircraft.
Dec 8, 2016 · John Herschel Glenn Jr was born in Cambridge, Ohio, in July 1921, the only son of a master plumber and a schoolteacher. He went to the local high school, which now bears his name, and then to...
Dec 9, 2016 · John Herschel Glenn—A Marine Corps fighter pilot, test pilot, astronaut, US senator from Ohio, and 1984 presidential candidate—died Thursday at the age of 95. Glenn, an Ohio native, flew 59 combat missions for the Navy in WWII flying the F4U Corsair and 149 combat missions during the Korean War.
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After World War II, he was a member of Fighter Squadron 218 on North China patrol and was also stationed in Guam. From June 1948 to December 1950 John Glenn was an instructor in advanced flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas.
