An “experimental” DC-4. A high-energy group of hardworking ex-servicemen. A Veterans Air Express UNRRA contract for cargo flights behind the iron curtain. And Newark/Miami winter passenger flights. By mid-1946, the all-veterans organization was becoming recognized and starting to thrive.
“Experimental” DC-4 expedited for UNRRA war relief flights Read More »
One bewildering, unfamiliar U. S. Immigrations Crew Manifest surfaced in Ancestry. There were others.
1946 Manifests of UNRRA Crews Read More »
What an exquisite honor to introduce our newest Veterans family member. Our Veterans Air Express navigator Michael Frome presents his own story, in his own words. I’m beyond excited to share two of Michael’s articles written on location for The Washington Post from April 1946 in Prague with Veterans Air. How’s that for impressive!!!
M. Frome. 1946 Navigator. Washington Post writer. Read More »
UNRRA war-relief. DC-4 flights to Prague three times and Warsaw twice with poultry hatching eggs.
2nd Prague Crew departs for home. 2 May 1946 UNRRA Read More »
First DC-4 in the fleet makes first over-flight of Russian occupied territory enroute to Warsaw, Poland, with Captain William Jakeman in the left seat.
Russia demands 1946 Warsaw overflight permit Read More »
Dirty weather, dangerous runway conditions and Russian overflight permission define Jakeman and Stettner’s UNRRA flight to Warsaw behind the “iron curtain.”
1st Warsaw UNRRA war relief flight makes history Read More »
By the time these eggs arrive in Warsaw, chicks from the first May delivery will have hatched. Both are historic flights.
2nd-ever civilian flight to Warsaw. 20 May 1946. Read More »
By the time these eggs arrive, chicks from the first UNRRA May 1945 delivery by Veterans Air will have hatched.
2nd UNRRA flight departs for Warsaw 20 May 1946 Read More »
This photo shows christening of the DC-4 about to fly two UNRRA flights to PRAGUE – the same aircraft later flown to WARSAW by Captain Morgan Cooper Walker and crew.
2nd 1946 Warsaw Crew Walker and Fagan named. Read More »
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 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.
1946 Veterans Air Crew Manifests for UNRRA War-Relief Flights Read More »
