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I I A*Flier in RenoAfter BombingThis WeekThe she' mess of the distance between Reno and the bombing raids on Germany being carried on by the English Royal Air Force was brought home yesterday afternoon when Capt Eddie Edison, a member of the RAF, arrived m Reno at two-thirty o'clock Fnday afternoon after leaving London, England, on Wednesday morning Captatn Edison, who was wounded by anti-aircraft fire while flying over Germany early this week, as a membef of the Eagle squadron, was en route to his mother’s home in San Francisco. He left London on Wednesday as a passenger aboard a transport ship which femes pilots from England toxicGcCO•ninCt01brararin.peneoffoWlpireVCtePCatAmerica so that they can ferry 01veJosta?bibombing planes back to Britain He arrived at an undisclosed field m Canada sometime Thursday morning, and New York later the same day. From New York, Captain Edison took a United Air Line plane for the Pacific coast but was able to get passage only as far as Reno on the first plane from the East, which resulted m his remain* clt; mg here until 11:45 o’clock last L night when he resumed his flight a to San Francisco via UAL. He has is a shrapnel wound in his shoulder * and expects to be in San Francisco _ for several weeks before rejoining Lhis squadron at Bristol, England hx- t:
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Reno Evening Gazette
Reno, Nevada, US
Sat, Aug 30, 1941
Page 11
Full Page
Clipped by
Raymond M.
SC, USA 28 Aug 2017
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