Editing Don Pendleton (section)

==Biography==
Don Pendleton served in the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]], in all theaters of the war. He enlisted fraudulently at the age of 14 in 1941 and his enlistment ended in November 1947. He returned to active duty in 1952, during the [[Korean War]], and served until 1954. He worked as a telegrapher for the [[Southern Pacific Railroad]] until 1957, and then as an [[air traffic control]] specialist for the [[Federal Aviation Administration]]. In the 1960s, he worked for [[Martin Marietta]] on the [[Titan (rocket family)|Titan missile]] program. He later served as an engineering administrator at [[NASA]] during the [[Project Apollo|Apollo]] missions. Pendleton also worked on the [[C-5 Galaxy]] [[Military transport aircraft|transport aircraft]] program.<ref name="Server2014"/>

At the age of 40 he started a creative writing correspondence course, but never completed it, instead turning in his first manuscript and selling it to a publisher. He is credited with creating the genre of action-adventure novels.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE4D71E3CF93BA15753C1A963958260 |title=Don Pendleton, 67, Writer Who Spawned a Genre |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Robert Thomas Jr.|accessdate=May 5, 2014 | date=October 28, 1995}}</ref>  He died in 1995, at age 67.