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Edwin Eugene "Gene" Aldrin Sr. (12 April 1896 – 28 December 1974) was an aviator and officer in the United States Army during World War I and World War II. He was assistant commandant of the Army's first test pilot school at McCook Field , Ohio , from 1919 to 1922, and founded the engineering school there that later became the Air Force ...
Gene Aldrin died on December 28, 1974, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. He married Marion G. Moon (1903-1968) of El Paso, Texas, on March 22, 1924, and their son Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., became the 2nd man to walk on the moon in 1969.
Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Sr., known as Gene, was born in 1896. He attended Clark University, graduating in 1915. There, he studied under Robert Goddard, who encouraged Aldrin's interest in aviation. Aldrin received his doctorate in aeronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He married Marion Moon, and the couple later ...
- April 12, 1896
- December 28, 1974
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr. Birthplace: Worcester, Worcester County, MA Deathplace: Brielle, Monmouth, NJ Father of Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr, second man to walk on the moon.
Jan 2, 1975 · BRIELLE, N. J., Jan. 1 (AP)—Edwin E. Aldrin Sr., a retired Air Force colonel who was a founder of the Aeronautical Engineering School, now the Air Force Institute of Technology, died Saturday...
Dec 28, 1974 · Explore genealogy for Edwin Aldrin Sr. born 1896 Worcester, Massachusetts, USA died 1974 San Francisco, California, USA including ancestors + children + more in the free family tree community.
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Jul 7, 2011 · Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is interviewed by phone from Los Angeles about his father, Edwin Aldrin, Sr. Edwin Aldrin counted among his friends airplane inventor Orville Wright, and Jimmy Doolittle, whose squadron of B-25s conducted the bombing of Tokyo in 1942, known forever as Doolittle’s Raid.
