Veteran "Power Pilot"

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20054213

Description

Lieutenant Colonel Harold R. Lee of the Marine Corps Air Station. "A veteran 'power pilot' who never has flown without an engine in front of him will command the Eagle Mountain base where a program for training glider pilots by the hundreds will be combined with the development of the newest technics in use of the motorless craft. He is 39-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Harold R. Lee, who revealed that the big (and newly named) Marine Corps Air Station will consist of three establishments instead of one, each almost completely self-contained so far as its training program goes. Largest will be the base now being whipped into shape by men and machines along the eastern shore of Eagle Mountain Lake, but neither of the others will be of pygmy size. One of the outlying fields, subsidiary to the main base, will be three miles west of Rhome and the other on the shore of Bridgeport Lake."

Archival Date

1942-10-01

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-1565

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Pilots; Flight Training; Training Programs; Glider Pilots; Military Development; Bridgeport Lake