Grissom Air Reserve Base
Originally named Bunker Hill Air Force Base , the base was renamed Grissom Air Force Base in 1968 in memory of astronaut and Indiana native Lieutenant Colonel Virgil I . "Gus" Grissom , USAF , who , along with fellow astronauts Lieutenant Colonel Ed White , USAF and Lieutenant Commander Roger Chaffee , USN , perished in the Apollo 1 fire at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on January 27 , 1967 . 
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