Labels:text | font | paper | black and white | document | screenshot | letter OCR: 1921 Born on July 18 in Cambridge, Ohio. 1942 Leaves Muskingham College, and starts training in the Naval Aviation Cadet Program. 1943 Commissioned in the Marine Corps (Glenn eventually reaches the rank of Colonel). He serves in the Pacific during World War II, and later in Korea. 1954 Starts work as a test pilot. 1957 Makes the first non-stop supersonic flight from Los Angeles to New York. 1959 April 27, selected, along with M. Scott Carpenter (1925-), L. Gordon Cooper (1927-), Virgil I. Grissom (1926-67), Walter M. Schirra (1923-), Alan B. Shepard (1923-), and Donald K. Slayton (1924-93), for astronaut training. The group become known as the Mercury Seven (Mercury being the name of the project). The group and their wives become media stars 1961 May, Glenn is backup pilot for the Mercury ...
