HEROES: To Hawaii

It is not difficult to throw a baseball 50 yards and make it hit the broad side of a barn. But how many people can make it hit a designated nail in the broad side of a barn. But how many people can make it hit a designated nail in the broad side of a barn?

With a large Fokker monoplane equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors, it was not difficult for Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger of the U. S. Army to fly 2,400 miles. But they had to hit the comparatively minute Hawaiian Islands...

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