60 Years Ago Today- John Glenn departed NAS Los Alamitos on record setting flight

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Associated Press</p><p>Minutes after he stepping from the plane in which he set a cross-country flight record, Maj. John H. Glenn Jr. is surrounded by his family, Lyn, 10; David, 11; and wife, Annie Glenn, at Floyd Bennett Field in New York, July 17, 1957. The Marine Corps pilot flew from Los Alamitos, Calif., in 3 hours, 23 minutes, 8.4 seconds, beating by nearly 22 minutes a mark set in 1955.

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