Word: huenefeld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hotel Adlon in Berlin was compared to that of the Maharaja of Baroda. Women kissed him in the lobby. For his head he took aspirin, went out to a musical show, later toured the night clubs, was overwhelmed by U. S. tourists. He called on Baroness von Huenefeld, presented her with a lucky coin carried by her late Atlantic-flying son. Berlin's garbage plant was given a brief inspection...
Next year Congress gave the Cross to Capt. Herman Koehl, Major James C. Fitzmaurice and Civilian-Passenger Baron Gunther von Huenefeld, who were rescued by Pilot Balchen after their monoplane Bremen stranded on Greenly Island. Casting aside all pretense of subtlety, Congress then bestowed the Cross in turn on de Pinedo, Coste and Lebrix - all deserving flyers, thinks Writer Allen, but so are a score of others illogically excluded, among them: Balchen, Acosta, Chamberlin, the late Wilmer Stultz, Brock & Schlee, Yancey & Williams, Kingsford-Smith...
This was the Grand Banks fog, the bete noire they had armed themselves against before taking off from Portniar-nock, Ireland. This was the fog that had swallowed Nungesser and CoU; Hamilton and the Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim; that nearly claimed von Huenefeld and the Bremen pilots. Now their own fuel was running low. No chance of making New York nonstop, or even U. S. soil. They must be somewhere near Harbor Grace Newfoundland, but how see the airport through such a fog? Then came a rift. The plane dived through it to a perfect landing at Harbor Grace. Thus last...