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Abraham Martin (abt. 1644 - abt. 1711)
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Son of John Martin and Maud (Marshall) Martin
Brother of John Lewis Martin and John Martin I
DescendantsFather of John Martin, William Martin and Zachariah Martin Sr.
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Biography
Colonel Abram Martin was born about 1642-44, of a Noble English family and came to Ablemarle in 1680, according to a genealogy originally compiled by Dr. Samuel Davies of Kentucky in 1857 and expanded upon by Annie Carrington Porcher in 1935.[1] The family connections made there were repeated in the 1942 publication The Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. VII as the genealogy of Mallie Malvina Bowling Glenn (Mrs. George Pearl) who was born near Paris, Monroe County, Missouri on May 7, 1853.
| The Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. VII |
The previous entry for his birth of King William County, is from ancestry.com rootsweb of a general forum list and is not a valid source. If this is the Abram Martin concerned with the photo attached, he was likely not in King William County, but rather Ablemarle County.
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The B-26 Marauder
By Sam McGowan
Of all the better-known Allied aircraft of World War II, the most controversial was Martin’s B-26 Marauder, a twin-engine cigar-shaped medium bomber that was loved by some and hated by many. Among those who hated the airplane were the crews of the Air Transport Command’s Ferrying Division who picked the Marauders up at the factory and delivered them to combat units. Those who loved it included Lt. Gen. James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle, who used a B-26 as his personal airplane, and most of the pilots and crew members who flew the airplane in combat. On three different occasions, efforts were made to cancel future B-26 production, but in each case proponents of the airplane managed to prevail, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of a diminutive former airshow pilot from Lynchburg, Va., named Vincent “Squeek” Burnett.
After gaining a terrible reputation due to the loss of dozens of crewmembers in training accidents, the Martin B-26 finished the war with the lowest combat loss ratio of any of the American bombers.
The B-26 came about as a result of an Army Air Corps requirement set forth in January 1939 for a twin-engine, high-speed medium bomber. The Glenn L. Martin Company submitted a design that had been drafted by Peyton Magruder, a young
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