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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Col. Harlan L. Gurney

Flying Circus parachute jumper and barnstormer 1922-1925
Airmail Pilot, Roberton Airlines, St. Louis, 1925-1929 (replaced Charles A. Lindbergh as chief pilot in 1927)
Pilot, Transcontinental Air Transport 1929-1930
Pilot, Boeing Air Transport, 1932 became United Airlines (UAL)
Retired UAL 1965 as most senior Captain to transition to flying DC-8 jet transports.
During WWII he served with Air Transport Command flying C-47s in Alaska, then C-87s and later C-54s in the Pacific Theater.
After airline retirement he was active in restoring and flying antique aircraft. The undersigned has a photo taken in 1969, showing him and Charles A. Lindbergh in his restored 1927 DeHavilland Gipsy Moth.
Died 1982.