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Wall of Honor Level: Air and Space Friend
Honored by:
Mr. Michael N. Ortell
Colonel Edward Ortell Celestial Navigator B-29 Superfortress, 3rd flight in line after Enola Gay and Bocks Car. After WWII Became nationally known astronomer. Devised many astronomical math formulas, i.e. (53-2(c+m)) =St..
Taught in eight decades; established Skylab, University of Dubuque, Iowa, El Camino College, Torrance, California. Honored Robert A Millikan at Maquoketa, Iowa with Pickering, Stuhlinger, Van Allen. Navigated last B-24 to land at Love Field at Dallas Texas. PhD Astronomy Professor, Dubuque, Iowa.
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