DM2 The Award of DFC Signed M Withers DFC John Glenn astronaut WW11 Ace. 12 Jun 84 The Award of DFC Signed M ...

DM2 The Award of DFC Signed M Withers DFC John Glenn astronaut WW11 Ace. 12 Jun 84 The Award of DFC Signed M Withers DFC Jet Provost pilot. Flt Lt M Withers DFC Black Buck Vulcan Pilot flew during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict in Vulcan Bomber in a series of long range bombing mission against the Argentinean occupied Falkland Islands. Codenamed Operation Black Buck. Detailed insert card and photograph of holders. Signed By John Glenn circled Earth on the Mercury 6 space mission in 1962, becoming the first American to make a complete orbit of the planet. John Glenn grew up in the small town of New Concord in southeastern Ohio. He joined the Navy after Pearl Harbor, flying 59 combat missions in World War II and another 90 combat missions during the Korean War. He shot down three MiG-15s, and was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen Air Medals. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. His on-board camera took the first continuous, panoramic photograph of the United States. In 1959 he became one of America's original seven Mercury astronauts, and was chosen as the pilot for a landmark mission: he orbited Earth three times on February 20, 1962 in the capsule Friendship 7. Alan Shepard had been the first American astronaut in space in 1961, but Glenn was the first American to actually circle the globe. (The first man into space overall was Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. ) After leaving NASA, John Glenn was elected senator from Ohio in 1974, serving four full terms through 1999. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. Glenn returned to orbit in late 1998, joining the crew of the space shuttle Discovery in a mission that was supposed to be a study of aging in space but became more of a nostalgic salute to a space pioneer. He signed this cover because The Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was awarded the USA DFC Not the British DFC. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99