File:First Emergency Army Air Mail 1934.jpg

Original file(890 × 381 pixels, file size: 100 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Description
English: Cover flown from Miami, FL, to Boston, MA, on the first day of the "Emergency Army Air Mail" service, February 19, 1934. This cover is signed by Army pilot 2nd Lt. William M. Reid. Less than a month after flying this cover Lt. Reid was involved in a fatal crash of a B-6A Keystone bomber flying the mail north from Miami which crash landed in a thickly wooded area two miles south of the airport at Daytona Beach, FL. Although Reid was not seriously injured one of his two crew members was killed. During WWII, Col. Reid commanded the 92nd Bombardment Group at Alconbury in East Anglia, England. Among his awards were two Silver Stars for gallantry in action flying B-17 bombers in the European theater.

Source: The Cooper Collection of Aero Postal History

Licensing

Image Licensing
Stamp Licensing
Date 1 June 2008 (original upload date)
Source Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Stan Shebs using CommonsHelper.
Author Centpacrr at English Wikipedia

Licensing

Centpacrr at English Wikipedia, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following licenses:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
You may select the license of your choice.

Original upload log

The original description page was here. All following user names refer to en.wikipedia.
  • 2008-06-01 01:15 Centpacrr 890×381× (115103 bytes) Cover flown from Miami, FL, to Boston, MA, on the first flight of the "Emergency Army Air Mail" service, February 19, 1934. (The Cooper Collections)

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

1 June 2008

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current02:42, 30 July 2011Thumbnail for version as of 02:42, 30 July 2011890 × 381 (100 KB)CentpacrrFixed oversaturation issues
11:05, 5 November 2008Thumbnail for version as of 11:05, 5 November 2008890 × 381 (112 KB)File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske) {{BotMoveToCommons|en.wikipedia}} {{Information |Description={{en|Cover flown from Miami, FL, to Boston, MA, on the first day of the "Emergency Army Air Mail" service, February 19, 1934. <small>Source: ''The Cooper Collection of Aero Postal History''</
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Metadata