page_title: Lewis S. Turner
section_title: Pan American Airways inc
hierarchical_section_title: Lewis S. Turner / Career / Pan American Airways inc
caption_attribution_description: English: 1937 era Wheaties cereal box cover #5 of 8 in the Airmail Flyers' Medal of Honor series.
context_page_description: Lewis Summers Turner was a clerk, automobile salesman, Army pilot, barnstormer, airmail pilot, airline pilot, and one of ten recipients of the Airmail Flyers' Medal of Honor.
context_section_description: Turner went to work for Pan American Airways, inc after being illegally fired by L&H.  Pan-Am also had offices in Dallas and during WWII Turner worked as a pilot instructor.  With the end of the war Turner transferred to San Antonio, Texas as part of the South American Department where he flew as co-pilot on the route between Brownsville, Texas and Tampico, Mexico.  His last flying was done as co-pilot on the route between Brownsville and Tegucigalpa, Honduras.  Turner retired in 1948 in failing health and returned to Mississippi.
caption: 1937 era Wheaties cereal box cover #5 of 8 in the Airmail Flyers' Medal of Honor series.
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