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Home Town Essex County, VA
Last Address Burial: Smyrna Christian Church Cemetery Bruington, King and Queen County, VA
Other Memories In the post-WWII years, Dr. Pollard concentrated on medical research and development and held numerous research assignments, both operational and staff, including serving on the staff of the Research and Development Board in the Office of the Secretary of Defense; in the Office of Naval Research; as Director, Research Division and, also, as Assistant Chief for Research and the Military Medical Specialties of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
During his naval career, Dr. Pollard made significant contributions to the following: the high-altitude balloon flight series known as STRATOLAB, which set a world altitude record of nearly 114,000 feet using life support systems and medical monitoring provided by the Navy; the selection of the three Navy and one Marine Corps Mercury astronauts of the original seven and their training in meeting the stresses of space flight; the space flight experiments, in cooperation with the Army, of squirrel monkeys Old Reliable, Able and Baker; the national effort in bioastronautics as it progressed in the 1960's by providing Navy scientists' technology and facilities to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and serving as the Navy's member on various committees of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. He was for several years the Director, Astronautical Medicine Division for the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
