Word: heraclio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shifted effectives from his south to his north front. Meanwhile, he opened the floodgates of all dams on the Noguera Pallaresa and Segre Rivers, northern tributaries of the Ebro. sent a wall of water tearing down into the river which raised it from three to five feet. Rightist Pilot Heraclio Gautier flew over the river to photograph the effects of the flood on Leftist pontoon bridges. His plane was winged by some 200 bullets. In the best Ratisbon tradition, he came back, managed to land in Rightist territory with photographs intact, died still at the controls...
...gave him a farewell letter; he could not read it but would let no one else so much as look at it. At the end of his story he says: "I have treasured it all my life, like nothing else I have ever had. There is one grandchild of Heraclio's who seems to me clean inside and out. If she learns to read Spanish well, and at 16 seems to be what she now is, I may trust her to read this letter of Dona Ysabel's to me; though not to touch...
Novelty of the meet was the entry of two two-place gliders; one a Heraclio Alfaro flown by Lieut.-Commander Ralph S. Barnaby & wife (he made the first airplane-airship hook-on experiments by dropping from the U. S. S. Los Angeles in a glider); the other designed and flown by Dr. Frank Gross and Joseph F. Funk of Akron...