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Then last Dec. 1 a World War I flyer, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, then OCD director, announced the birth of the Civil Air Patrol. The Army hailed CAP as an aid to national defense...
Begetters of CAP were Gill Robb Wilson, World War I flyer, poet, New Jersey State aviation director; Guy Gannett. Maine newspaper publisher; Thomas H. Beck, huge, booming-voiced president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. Chief executive is another hulk of a man, Earle Johnson of Ohio, 6 ft. 4½ in., newly commissioned a captain in the Army Air Force...
Lieut. E. H. Hansen, an American bombardier who was a psychologist before he became a flyer, told correspondents what it is like to go into action. Said...
...flyer answered...
...that reply the natives lowered their spears and walked the flyer 25 miles to the home of an English missionary, who cared for him and put him aboard a small sailing vessel bound for Australia...