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DC-3 Captain Robert Montanarello, left seat, is first hire of the Veterans Air Flight Crews.
Stettner logbook verifies 1946 non-sked history.
Research project of 1945 history gets huge boost with face-to-face visit in August 2015 with…
1946 Manifests of UNRRA Crews
One bewildering, unfamiliar U. S. Immigrations Crew Manifest surfaced in Ancestry. There were others.
1946 film of UNRRA Prague crew arrival
A pride hard to verbalize shudders through me every time I see this film footage…
1st Warsaw UNRRA war relief flight makes history
Dirty weather, dangerous runway conditions and Russian overflight permission define Jakeman and Stettner’s UNRRA flight…
#3 Prague trip. Radio loss forces Portland landing
Radio problems force Captain W. C. Jakeman’s Crew to land in Portland Maine en route…
The whole story. Air line ticket-selling romance.
Great fun recently meeting sons of Richard Broughton…Craig and his wife Carol in Florida and…
Bernard Shmanske. DC-3 pilot and stockholder
This handsome young man is Bernard Francis Shmanske wearing his U.S. Army Air Forces uniform….
Broughton, Martz, Cowart: Breaking News
Look who I found!! Two sons, Craig & Robert, of 1945 1st Officer Richard…
Thomas E Cowart. International Flight Engineer. Walker Recruit.
In 1942 & ’43 the Army Air Corps turned Thomas E. Cowart from a farm…
Edward F Martz Jr. International UNRRA Navigator
Veterans Air Express Navigator Edward Martz regaled me with stories I have not heard before….
Robert C. Chambers early DC-3 Chief Pilot.
A new treasure…photo of Robert C. Chambers standing with our first DC-3 in 1945 while…