Saunie Gravely weds Lydia Amadio
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I am tickled to show you the Saunie Gravely weds Lydia Amadio announcement & photo.
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Saunie Gravely, future AAF gunnery instructor, will found Veterans Air Express post-WWII.
Saunie Gravely. Founder. Read More »
WWII GIs, war surplus DC-3s and DC-4s, produce and passengers: Saunie’s 1945 non-sked air service.
Saunie Gravely. Founder, Board Chairman, President. My Dad! Read More »
Gordon E Bellman, a 6-year WWII vet of both RAF and AAF, Army Air Forces, joined Veterans Air Express in mid-1945 on Board of Directors and as Director of Operations.
Gordon E Bellman. Board Member. Operations Mgr. Read More »
First stock certificate printed even before “Veterans” became part of the official company name.
First Stock Offering Absent Afterthought New Name Read More »
DC-3 Captain Robert Montanarello, left seat, is first hire of the Veterans Air Flight Crews.
KY journalist covers people, plans, glider, turkeys. Read More »
With first cargo flight, Robert Montanarella, pilot, and Saunie Gravely, founder, get Veterans Air airborne.
Fly anything to anybody from anywhere. The 1945 plan. Read More »
Non-sked. Newark round-trip. Modern airliners. “Snowbirds” to Miami. Summer vacationers to Cape Cod. (NYT classifieds. Newark NJ display ad.)
Florida & Cape Cod by Air in 1946 Read More »
Research project of 1945 history gets huge boost with face-to-face visit in August 2015 with 92-year old Jack Stettner. His logbook contains the “missing” third DC-3.
Stettner logbook verifies 1946 non-sked history. Read More »
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.
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