Radio loss forces Veterans Air Crew to land in Portland ME enroute to Prague. Press photo identifies six Crew known by name only prior.
#3 Prague trip. Radio loss forces Portland Maine landing Read More »
A pride hard to verbalize shudders through me every time I see this film footage of my Dad’s crew members disembarking from the Veterans Air Line DC-4 in Prague. Saunie Gravely was 22 when he got the idea of an all-Veterans air service. And this amazing footage is proof of his dream-become-reality. Come watch. Sorry, no popcorn today.
1946 film of UNRRA Prague crew arrival Read More »
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.
Thomas Cowart. Flight Engineer. Cpt. Morgan Walker’s recruit. Read More »
