Thomas Lanphier Boards Pan American Airplane in New York

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Thomas Lanphier Boards Pan American Airplane in New York

Colonel Thomas G. Lanphier, Jr. carries the Air Force Association's Wright Brothers 46th Anniversary Air Mail Envelope [see NASM 9A13800] on his AFA-sponsored record-setting commerical airline passenger Around the World Flight, December 2-7, 1949. Edward Heil, Post Office official (left) and Major General James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle" (right) pose with Lanphier (center) before he boards a Pan American World Airways flight; New York, NY, December 2, 1949.