Since shortly after the Wright brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Florida has attracted entrepreneurs, inventors, and investors, not to mention the U.S. military and scientists, interested in the possibilities of flight.
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Photo by Mark Foley.
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From left to right: Navy Lt. Comdr. Malcolm Scott Carpenter; Air Force Capt. Leroy Cooper, Jr.; Marine Lt. Col. John Glenn, Jr.; Air Force Capt. Virgil Grissom; Navy Lt. Comdr. Walter Schirra, Jr.; Navy Lt. Comdr. Alan Shepard, Jr.; and Air Force Major Donald Slayton.
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His crew were Sergeant Perdue and Sergeant Culver. Rosenblatt was born in Tampa and was a long-time resident of Jacksonville. He served in the U.S. Air Force for 22 years and was a fighter pilot during both World War II and the Korean Conflict. He received two distinguished flying crosses, the Air Medal, and three Oak Leaf Clusters in World War II alone. He was credited with destroying four Nazi planes and damaging three others.
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