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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Mr. William Paton

Clement Hogue, 7-29-1911 to 6-14-1998, learned to fly using the GI Bill after returning from WWII where he served as a Chief Gunner’s Mate in the Pacific Theatre. His first plane was and old Curtiss Pusher. He flew a WACO biplane to Alaska in the late 1940s. Beginning many years of adventurous Alaskan Bush flying. One of his ‘thrills’ as to perform a successful and deliberate crash landing of an old heavily loaded ‘disposable’ cargo plane at a mountain mining camp in order to ferry in urgently needed over-weight equipment . The book he never wrote would have enthralled us all.