Quote of the day
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Victor Francis Hess
Born: June 24, 1883
Died: December 17, 1964 (aged 81)
Bio: Victor Franz Hess was an Austrian-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who discovered cosmic rays.