Word: nc4
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Short, quiet Albert ("Putty") Reid (who piloted the famed NC4 across the Atlantic in 1919) will head the Technical Training Command. Heavy, greying Elliott Buckmaster (who skippered the carrier Yorktown to her last hours at Midway) will run the Primary Air Training Command. Stocky Alfred Montgomery probably will get the Intermediate Air Training Command. To unnamed jobs went De Witt ("Duke") Ramsey, Arthur Davis, Charles Mason and Frank Wagner (who commanded Patwing Ten in early Pacific battles...
...Pensacola admiral is Admiral Towers. He has been flying since Glenn Curtiss taught him how in 1911. It was he who commanded the famous NCs when the NC4 became the first (1919) plane to cross the Atlantic. When appointed chief of BuAer he had been 28 years an airman...