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...executive decree he set aside the Army's rule that women cannot fly in Army planes, put a four-motored Boeing bomber at Senora Dávila's disposal. One day last week an Army ambulance rolled Carlos Dávila's lady out to Mitchel Field, L. I. With a crew of eight, accompanied by her husband, an Army surgeon and a nurse (Olympia Fumigalli), Señora Dávila took off in her Flying Fortress. By radio she sent her thanks to Neighbor Roosevelt. Three days later. Franklin Roosevelt's big bird...
...bombing range of U. S. fields from Newfoundland on. Chief of the Army's strong points in New England is the new Northeast Air Base now under construction at Chicopee Falls, Mass, (just north of Springfield). Farther south, on Long Island, is the Army's Mitchel Field, seat of the Air Defense Command. Through the whole northeast are scores of fields, ranging from New York City's LaGuardia and Floyd Bennett to emergency stops on the airline runs, from which Army aircraft could operate in a pinch. With Canada's cooperation, the use of Canadian fields...
...that Mitchel's prayer have heard...
That morning some 1,500 planes were taxied to the take-off lines at all the Corps's major fields-Virginia's Langley, Long Island's Mitchel, Michigan's Selfridge,* Louisiana's Barksdale, Alabama's Maxwell, Texas' Randolph, Kelly, Brooks and Duncan, Illinois's Chanute and Scott, Colorado's Lowry, Washington's Fort Lewis, California's March and Hamilton. At a radio signal from President Roosevelt in the White House, the planes at all these fields roared forward, swept aloft, joined each other in droning, hammering formations, swung...
First open hostility in the press showed itself on a rainy day in 1927 when Lindbergh took off from Washington for Mitchel Field, N. Y. As he swung his ship around, his propeller blast picked up pools of muddy water and showered it over newshawks...