Word: usmc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vice President Childs knew about the crackup. It occurred, he was positive, because the pilot, Staff Sergeant Gordon K. Heritage, USMC, had tried to take off before the rotor was turning at sufficient speed. The ship fell from about 30 ft., wrecking the undercarriage and breaking the rotor blades at the tips when it hit the ground. Otherwise all four blades remained intact...