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George Ohrstrom was born at Ford River, Mich., a dark and precocious child of Teutonic-Scandinavian parents. The Ohrstroms moved west, to Washington where the son was educated in Tacoma High School. After some youthful experience in lumbering and railroad construction, he went back to Michigan, to the university at Ann Arbor. He left Michigan during the War to fly. (As an aviator in the Argonne, he is credited with bringing down the last German plane of the War.) After the War he went back to Michigan and took his degree. In New York he took his first and only...
Transpacific. After months of effort Don Moyle and C. A. Allen, Californians, got their City of Tacoma off Sabishiro Airport, Japan; started for Seattle, $75,000 rewards and, for Flyer Moyle, a 30-day Los Angeles jail sentence for driving a motor car while drunk...
Bromley's Luck (cont.). In the fourth plane built for the purpose, Lieut. Harold Bromley & Navigator Harold Gatty finally took off last week from Samishiro Beach, Aomori Prefecture, Japan for a nonstop flight to Tacoma, Wash. Twenty-five hours later they were down again at Shiriyazaki, about 40 mi. from the starting point. Reports were meagre, but it was known that the City of Tacoma, an Emsco monoplane, had been in the thick of headwinds, rain and peasoup fog in its course over the Kuriles Islands. One despatch indicated that the plane was forced back by a broken exhaust...
...first half day the plane covered only 750 mi. of its projected 4500 mi. course. (It carried fuel for 50 hr.) For the next twelve hours, its radio dead, the Tacoma was "lost" until it unexpectedly appeared out of the gloom at Shiriyazaki...
Lieut. Bromley first undertook the Pacific venture as a Tacoma-Tokyo solo flight early last year. His first plane, a Lockheed, was wrecked at the takeoff. Two more crashed in testflights. With the Emsco, Lieut. Bromley abandoned the westbound route because of prevailing headwinds, sailed for Tokyo with plane and navigator last July...