AIR MAIL PILOT'S REUNION ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING OCTOBER 8, 1960

Bill Williams - Burr Winslow - Frank Yager - Dana DeHart Photo and text from collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

 

Dana "Daddy" DeHart - Tex Marshall - Ernest Allison Photo and text from collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

 

Harry "The Hawk" Huking - Henry Boonstra - Bill Williams In rear - Emil Henrichs Partly obscured (left) Dean Smith Photo and text from collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

TO HARRY HUKING HIS CAREER IS THE STORY OF COMMERCIAL AVIATION. A MAN OF CHARACTER WHOSE QUIET DIGNITY AND GENTLE HUMOR HAVE SHORTENED MANY A LONG NIGHT. WITH GRATEFUL ADMIRATION FROM THOSE WHO WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER "HARRY THE HAWK" Courtesy of Keith W. Huking, 11-20-05

 

Paul F. "Dog" Collins - Warren D. "Bill" Williams Photo and text from collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

 

Paul F. "Dog" Collins - Dean C. Smith - Bill Williams Photo and text from collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

 

Left to right 1. Bill Williams 2. with beard - Wm. Beaudette - not a member, but I understand he used to be around Rock Springs, Wyo. 3. In rear - Burr Winslow 4. Frank Yager - lives near me, in Anaheim. LFB Photo and text from collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

 

AIR MAIL PIONEERS Dedicated to the Former Employees of the U.S. Air Mail Service   This website is dedicated to the men and women of the U.S. Air Mail Service, a little-remembered organization that laid the foundation for commercial aviation worldwide. With the cooperation of the U.S. Air Service, the U.S. Post Office flew the mail from 1918 until 1927.   Air Mail Service pilots are the unsung heroes of early aviation. In their frail Curtiss Jennies and postwar de Havillands, they battled wind, snow, and sleet to pioneer round-the-clock airmail service along the world's longest air route, the U.S. transcontinental. In the process, thirty-four pilots lost their lives.   Through profiles, photographs and historical articles, this Internet website brings to life the human drama of those early days in aviation's infancy.   Editor's Note: This was excerpted from the homepage of Nancy Wright's Air Mail Pioneers website. You will find information on many of the aviators pictured above, including Ernest Allison, Tex Marshall and Max Miller, as well as much more information of interest. I heartily recommend it to your attention. To access the site, just click on Air Mail Pioneers.

 

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