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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Ms. Linda Cotton

Robert E. Cotton, USAF ATC4
From my father's log --
"As a flight engineer, I flew with a back-up crew on a C-54 to take Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, to Moscow for talks with Stalin. We departed Washington, D.C. October 7, 1943 to West Palm Beach, Florida. This was Cordell Hull's first flight.
He then took a Navy Cruiser to Casablanca, where General Dwight Eisenhower was based at this time. Eisenhower came out to our planes and talked to us. After 4 days of business, we left on "Mission to Moscow" on October 15, 1943, via Algeria, Cairo, to Teheran -- where we met a 3rd plane, a B-24 (converted to a passenger plane) which carried Ambassador Averil Harrison.
Here the Russians took over and piloted the planes to Moscow, arriving on October 18, 1943. The VIPs received a reception by Molotov."