Did anyone see the movie "Pearl Harbor"? The captain of the USS West Virginia, Mervin S Bennion, was mortally wounded when the Japanese struck on Dec 7th. Despite his wounds, he refused to leave the ship and continued to direct the battle/evacuation of the vessel. His grave is in the Salt Lake City Cemetary http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8131613
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 06:36:02 -0600 From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] best manned mission site Message-ID: <CAHmuOYrKWuRT7AMZ5qu3W=-BNxZVyu2y-TyC6MFgtGroovuOVw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
That's very interesting, Joe!
Did you know that the first American pilot to shoot-down an enemy aircraft in combat lived his later years in Salt Lake, as a faculty member at the UofU, and is buried in the Salt Lake City cemetary? I located his grave some years ago; Glen Warchol wrote it up for the Tribune as a Memorial Day piece. He was flying as a volunteer for the French at the time of his victory in WWI, in the Lafayette Flying Corps, long before the US entered the war in 1917.
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
Did you know Burroughs wrote Maid of Mars when he was living in Salt Lake City?
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