At Goose Bay, Labrador, one day last week Lieut. Colonel Bert Raymond John ("Fish") Hassell. C.O. of the Air Transport Command base there, stood on the mile-long runway, waved goodbye to another batch of bombers headed over Greenland's icecap for Europe. Said he: "There they go, doing what I didn't do."
In 1928 "Fish" Hassell, then a barnstormer, tried to show that it was easier to fly to Europe via the North Atlantic route than any other way. He borrowed money at his home-town bank in Rockford, Ill., took off in a Stinson...
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