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11:16:13-12:07:13
11:16:13 -- PICTURE OF THE WEEK: From 1942, Marine recruits undergo training in barrage-balloon wrangling at Parris Island, Texas. When tethered to steel cables, the balloons were used to provide a defense against low-level attack aircraft.
11:23:13 & 11:30:13 -- PICTURE OF THE WEEK: Mission control monitoring the flight of John Glenn, who became the first American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962, on the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, circling the globe three times during a flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds. This made Glenn the third American in space and the fifth human being in space.
12:07:13 -- PICTURES OF THE WEEK: December 7, 1941.
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