Word: bellatrix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. William Francis Dietrich, 65, plucky rear admiral (ret.) who, as captain of the cargo ship U.S.S. Bellatrix, won the Navy Cross by repeatedly defying Japanese air attack to carry supplies to the besieged marines at Guadalcanal; of pneumonia; in Bethesda...
...less successful in his effort to have the stars renamed so that people could remember them better. He wrote a book to urge that Betelgeuse, Bellatrix and Mintaka be called by such names as Nelson or Columbus or Magellan...