1946 Manifests of UNRRA Crews
One bewildering, unfamiliar U. S. Immigrations Crew Manifest surfaced in Ancestry. There were others.
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Prague 1946 News Coverage By Marguerite Higgins
Happy to “introduce” me to this famous war correspondent, one of the Veterans Air Prague Crew told me that he had met Marguerite Higgins in their hotel lobby during the first Prague UNRRA flight. While waiting to receive word about departure day and time for their return home, he spent part of a day with
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1st Prague crew returns. 23 April 1946. UNRRA
1946 press clipping with prized photo. 2015 face-to-face details from Martz and Cowart! Come see.
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1946 Veterans Air Crew Manifests for UNRRA War-Relief Flights
In 1946, contracted by United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration, Veterans Air flew five war-relief cargos of fertilized hatching eggs to Prague and Warsaw and one flight to Athens of dairy breeding calves.
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Broughton, Martz, Cowart.
Found! Two sons, Craig & Robert, of 1st Officer Richard Broughton; Edward Martz, navigator, living in NJ; Thomas Cowart, flight engineer, living in SC. All flew Veterans Air United Nations war relief flights to Prague, Warsaw and Athens. I am psyched!
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Thomas Cowart tells us about Gus and Elsie.
Thomas, Veterans Air International Flight Engineer, is amused by the publicity stunt for three young dairy stock being flown to Athens as part of their UNRRA war-relief contract. He remembers that young Gus Kaloss was chosen as “handler” on the trip because he is of Greek decent and belongs a youth farmer’s group. He says
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17 year old “flys” baby cows to Greece
Almost hidden, Constantine Kaloss, young Greek-American livestock handler for UNRRA Athens flight, tucks between 3 calves crates in DC-4 transport.
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Thomas Cowart. Flight Engineer. Cpt. Morgan Walker’s recruit.
In 1942-43 the Army Air Corps turned Thomas E. Cowart from farm boy to aircraft mechanic, then later to flight engineer. Flying the world with Air Transport group, he meet Captain Cooper Walker. And after the war, Walker recruited Cowart to join Veterans Air Express and fly the world together again. Thomas tells his vivid-memory story. Come meet him.
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Edward F Martz Jr. International UNRRA Navigator
Veterans Air Express Navigator Edward Martz regaled me with stories I have not heard before. In our face-to-face meeting last month in New Jersey, Ed Martz shared vivid memories from his 1946 flights behind the Iron Curtain. You don’t want to miss the full story!
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Crews met, families found, “real stuff” witnessed
Ten 1945-46 Veterans Air crew families located since April 2015 Actually, so far, I’ve been in contact with ten families of Veterans who joined Veterans Air and I’ve met three of our crew members. You may recall my first “road trip” was in August (2015) to Florida to meet Pilot and Operations man Jack Stettner and all of Jack’s “kids,”
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1945 Crew list grows from 22 to 62
Researching the airline in April 2015, the list of men who flew, crewed and managed this non-sked airline was 22. Within months, it grew to 62.
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Thomas Cowart dies. Fond farewell, Kind Sir.
Thomas Cowart, our Veterans Air DC-4 Flight Engineer, died on December 20, 2016. He crewed during the 1946 United Nations post-war relief flights to Prague, Warsaw and Athens. Thomas and I shared many hours, many stories and much laughter in person and over the phone. Today I share the immediacy of my emotions at his passing.
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