Word: buffelin
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...captain of another steamer off the coast of Alaska thought he heard a plane overhead, but there was no further clue. Weather was bad. Neither Moyle nor Allen was an experienced long distance flyer or navigator. Their plane, named the Clasina Madge for the daughter of Backer John Buffelin, Tacoma lumberman, had failed twice before: once (as the City of Tacoma) when Bromley & Gatty flew it 1,200 mi. from Tokyo and were forced back with a broken exhaust pipe; once when (as the Pacific) Thomas Ash Jr. was unable to take it off with the necessary fuel load. Japanese...
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