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/In* John will ride in the big 65-passenger, DC 4 flag hipMexico's Air Celebration Rescheduled On October 12BROWNSVILLE — When the Agullochoi’, famous 201st Mexican Army Air Force* Fighter Sqund ron, went from Mexico City to the South Pacific, they went there to fight on the *lde of the demccra dee And fight they did, until their squadron hod put together a dlitingulahed and coloiful set vice iecorri and the war hnd been wonLittle wfl* it then realised what far-reaching influence their service and a**oct»tion* ultimately would hava on International relatlonihip* between the United Slate* and Mexico The war and winning it wai the all absorbing thought Butfriendship* understanding and brotherly love ever by products ol men fighting side by side have reiulted in the finest aviation relationship* in the hlitory of the two North American Republic*And it li eaiy enough to imagine that lomt of the veteran* of thla celebrated outfit exerted a bit of the old army heave ho on off I clol Mexico when that government extended an official State Depail merit Invitation to 600 000 ll S civ il pilot* to visit their country in a maia flight ai guest* of the government.Coordinated with Air DayThe original invitation and the rwullant icheduled flight wai co ordinated with Air Day In Tex is at Harlingen when thousand* of viiltSng airmen were expected io be In the VAlley to attend one or both of these unparalleled aviation eveut*Later developments however fotced a postponement of the flight until Oct 12 according to David V* Simpson chairman of the Valley wide Dina Patrols Assisting com mlttee The U S Assisting committee was set up at the request of Senior Rodolfo Rubio Rojo consul of Mexico at Brownsville through whoie office the official Invitation was channeled in the United States The purpose of the comtnlt*ee is to expedite matter* north of the borderHeadquarters of the comm 11 cc at the Brownsville International Airport have announced that ar rangementi are complete for Irnml gration and customs clearance* at all tha Rio Orande Valley airports from which Dias Patrlo* flights will be dispatchedSafe Route Dr.si matedlec po i led out tit it no cons be ot hi thm lint ct foith In the Mcxlu i-orricr should be attempted by DJ 1* Pniiios flyers lhh thcv repeated it the safest course to Mexico City nnd is the route charted In the early dnys of aviation and pioneered by the first inter-American air lines
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Valley Morning Star
Harlingen, Texas, US
Sat, Sep 07, 1946
Page 24
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