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Air Mail’s 25th Birthday Celebrated by Uncle Sam
Western Newspaper Union notes the 25th anniversary of regular air mail service begun in May 1918 with the New York Washington route. It traces growth from early cockpit flights to a global air network, including advances in radio, aircraft, and private contractor transition in 1926 27.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Western
Union
Atlantic Seaboard
Pacific Coast
Uncle Sam
Army
Navy
New York
Washington
United States
Earl E. Orvington
Mineola
Long Island
N. Y
Isa
Post Office Department
War Department
Woodrow Wilson
Potomac Park
San Francisco
Atlantic
Pacific
George Washington
United Air Lines
National Air Transport
Chicago-New York
Chicago
U. S
T.A.T
Clifford Ball, Inc
Stout Air Services
Universal Air Lines
Interstate Airlines
Gulf Air Lines
Maddux Air Lines
Standard Airlines
American Airlines
TWA
Eastern
Pan American
Miami
San Juan
Nassau
Havana
Throp Hiscock
Sam