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Flying Boats, Part I: “The Spruce Goose”
By Kyle Thede, former SC&A intern and recent graduate of the WSU Public History program Seventy years ago this fall, on November 2, 1947, the residents of Long Beach, California who cared to glance out over the harbor were witness … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation, Collections
Tagged MS-344, MS-376
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“First Time for Everything”
Story by Kyle Thede, SC&A intern and Public History graduate student Lieutenant Fairchild was still humming the familiar refrain of “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” though the constant howl of the wind rushing past his open cockpit drowned out any … Continue reading
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Tagged Kyle Thede, MS-214, MS-344
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