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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Figures Large in First Trans-Pacific Flight to Hawaii
July 23, 2019
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio, July 23 -- The U.S. Air Force (88th Air Base Wing) issued the following news:

By W. Eugene Barnett

The Trans-Pacific flight had been regularly requested by 1st Lt. Lester J. Maitland of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Air. On February 25, 1927 Maitland wrote a letter to 1st Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger, chief of the Instrument and Navigation Branch at McCook Field in Dayton Ohio. Maitland spoke to Hegenberger about be . . .

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