The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-27
WORLDFLYERS OF 20 YEARS AGO
 FIGHTING TODAY
My RRURL e, MOORE

Washington, Sops, Ns-(UP)-- Aviation history has moved 60 fast that some Of Che flyers who made Che first around-the-world flight 20 years ago are still in combat while their feat now appears common place against everyday perform Anees of the Air Forces,
 It took months os planning and elaborate organization Co carry out the giobe-circllng hop Many thousands of boInbers and fighters have made longer and moro diti- cult flights on route to combat fronts in this war than any of the jumps made by the original Nround- the-world flyers, while transport planes are regularly flying to all corners of the earth,
 The first world flight started in Seattle, April 6, l02A, and ended there September %, i7b days later. Four Douglas cruisers carrying two men each started the flight and two finished, flying 20,S45 miles in S6S hours and 2 minutes flying time.
 On Many Fronts
 Participants and their present whereabouts;
 Major Frederick L. Martin, com manding ofiicer and pilot of the fiagShlp Seattle, retired Rs major general July Sl, ie44, home 40l N. Bowling 0reen Way, West Los Angeles. Cal.
 Lieutenant Lowell II. Smith, Chi- cago's pilot and commanding otiicer after Major Martin crashed in Alaska, now Colonel on duty with 9th Ar Force In Caribbean area; wife, Mrs. Madeline 0. smith, 2820 East 9th street, Tucson, AriS,
 Lieutenant Leigh Wade, BostonS pilot, now colonel commanding U, 8. Army Air Forces In Cuba; wife, 306S Cleveland avenue, N, w., Washing ton, D. c,
 Lieutenant Erik II, Nelson, New orleans pilot, now colonel on duty in AAF Headquarters, Washington, D. O.
 lieutenant Leslie P. Arnold, now colonel on duty with 9th Air Force, England; wife, e% Dwight Place, Englewood, N, J. Lieutenant John Harding, resign Nd AEOtV khAUtSI tiSW AA NNAotASh W Love Field, Dallas, Tex.
 Sergeant Ava Harvey, who crash- ed with Martin In Alaska, now col- onel commanding wing of the goth Bomber command operating against the Japanese from China; mother, Mrs. L. Harvey, RED l, Cleburne, Tex,
 Stan Sergeant Henry IT. ogden, civilian employed by Lockheed Air. craft Corporation In Ireland.
 Bissell Now General
 TrNe route was divided ln seven divisions, with advance officers Rs- signed to arrange for the flight. These divisions and the advance officers were:
 First Divislon, Seattle to Chiea- golf, Attu, 3202 miles, Lieutenant Clayton L. Blssell, no major general commanding 0.2, War Department General Staff, Washington, D. c. Second Division, NicholSki, Ko. mRndorski, to Kagoshima, Japan, 3,030 miles; Lieutenant clifford c. Mutt, now colonel, 7th Air Force, Central Pacific wife. Mrs. Edna c. Mutt, liS N, Victory Parkway, os. born, o.
 Tnird Division, Shanghai to cal- eutta, 4,0i0 miles; Lieutenant Nal. colm s, Lawton, now colonel on duty in Hawaii wife, Annie Mac Lawton, 1901 6, Hue street, Mont- gonery, Ala.
 Fourth Division, Aliahabad to Constantinople, 4,460 miles; Lieu. tenant Harry A. Halverson, now col- onel, Hamilton Field, Cal, formerly on combat duty in the Mediter- rAnean; father, 4720 Thompkins street, Oakland, Cal.
 Fifth Division. Bucharest to Lon. don, 1898 miles; Major Carlyle II, Wash, killed January %, l943, In an aiFplane crash while holding the rank of brigadieF general; sister, Mrs, Arthur Zierold. 4306 Fremont avenue, g. Minneapolis, Minn,
 sixth Division, Drough, England, to Boston; Lieutenant Clarence F. Crumrine, now colonel, 9th Air Force, England wife, Dorothy E. Crumrine, 260 Volusia avenue, Day. ton, O.: Lieutenant LeClaire ShultE, who subsequently died on duty with the Air Corps. BiSsell also served as one of the advance officers Of this division.
 Seventh Diyision, New York to Seattle; Captain Burdette Wright, now Viee.president, CurtisS- Wright Corporation, Buffalo.
 Served On Committee
 Air Corps officers who served on the World Flight Committee were:
 Captain William ?. Voldant, fi. nance and transportation member, now colonel, AAF headquarters, Washington, D. O., home Westches. ter Apartments, Washington,
 Lieutenant Robert J. Brown, com. mitteO chairman, killed in an air. plane crash ct Langley Field, Va.
 Captain Lorenzo L, Snow, foreign Raaations member, now civilian with ssuk and Whitney, East Hartford, eonn.
 .AHutenant St. Clair Street., now major general commanding the 18th Air Force in the Far East: wife, Mrs Mary Street., Fort Myer, Va.
 The Chicago, Lieutenant Smiths flagship which completed the flight, Is now in the Smithsonian InstItu. tion'S aeFonauticai museum ln Washington, while the New Orleans is iE . Los Angeles museum, The Seattle was destroyed ln . crash in Seattle and the Boston was lost after . forced landing In the Atlantic.
 The planes had Q wing span Of 50 feet, length Of 3e feet and weighed about 5000 pounds empty.