Northwest History. Aviation 8. Rescue & Searching Parties, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: snow; search planes; Barrow; Alaska; transpolar flight; United States; north Alaskan town; overnight flight; Russian north pole camp; storm; Harold Gillam; Fairbanks; A. Vartanian; Sigismund Levaneffsky; "the Lindbergh of Russia"; Hubert Wilkins; explorer; Aklavik; N. W. T.; missing plane; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Gillam; North Pole; Pacific; Wilkins; Russian North
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86049

Snow Grounds Search Planes. SNOW GROUNDS SEARCH PLANES BARROW, Alaska, Sept. 20. UP)— Russian flyers, searching for six comrades missing since August 13 on a transpolar flight to the United States, were snowbound at this farthest north Alaskan town today. They had planned yesterday on an overnight f...