M. Cranford Dalby, Marine Corps Officer And Businessman, 86, Washington Post

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103103742_3.html

M. Cranford Dalby Marine Corps Officer, Businessman

M. Cranford Dalby, 86, a retired Marine Corps colonel who later helped run a
military contracting company, died October 1 [2008] at his home in
Alexandria [Virginia] after a heart attack.

Col. Dalby joined the Marines in 1943 and was a fighter pilot in World War
II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

In the early 1950s, he was credited with helping develop a method to guide
bombs released at night via radio control. He received the Legion of Merit,
three awards of the Distinguished Flying Cross and six Air Medals. He
retired from the Marines in 1970.

Col. Dalby then became a vice president of Stanley Associates, an Arlington
[Virginia] company specializing in military engineering and logistics. He
helped introduce computerized methods for military logistics planning before
his retirement in 2000.

Marion Cranford Dalby was born in Fort Worth [Texas] and grew up in Texas
and New Mexico. He was a 1961 graduate of the University of Maryland and
received a master's degree in systems management from George Washington
University in 1970.

Col. Dalby enjoyed sailing his 42-foot clipper and made annual trips to the
Caribbean, sometimes for weeks at a time. He also collected Pueblo Indian
pottery.

His marriage to Martha Dalby ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of six years, Elizabeth P. Baldwin of Alexandria;
two children from his first marriage, Dr. Susan L. Dalby of Clearwater,
British Columbia [Canada], and Jefferson F. Dalby of Winston-Salem, North
Carolina; and three grandchildren.

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