COHEN, STAN - The Alaska Flying Expedition the U.S. Army's 1920 New York to Nome Flight

Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories, 1998. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 157510041X. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "In the early days of aviation, any wilderness was a challenge for propeller-driven airplanes made of wood and fabric. And in 1920, there was hardly a territory more rugged and fraught with danger than Alaska. So it was that Billy Mitchell of the Army Air Service, who was always anxious to show off the power and reach of his airplanes, sent the eight-member "Black Wolf Squadron" on a month-long journey from New York to Nome, Alaska in four de Havilland DH-4 biplanes. The expedition, led by Captain St. Clair Streett, left on July 15 and reached Nome on August 24. Then it was on to Fairbanks, where, Streett wrote later in National Geographic, the old "sour-dough" settlers "could not believe that we had covered the distance from New York in 50 hours , when they had spent 18 or 20 months reaching there by way of the Yukon in the gold-rush days." For many of the spectators, it was the first time they had seen an airplane. " (from Air & Space). Near Fine .

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