Northwest History. Alaska. Mercy Flights.

Airplane Boon To Sick: Alaska Flyer Brings Woman And Baby To Hospital. AIRPLANE BOON TO SICK Alaska Flyer Brlngs Woman and Baby to Hospital. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 12. (/P)—With the fall and winter airplane service for the first time in day believed it proved its value when Pioneer Airways planes b...

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Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1930
Subjects:
airplane
Ketchikan
Alaska
Pioneer Airways plane
Jim Dodson
Prince of Wales island
Hydeburg
Northwest
Pacific > History > 20th century
Dodson
Pacific
Prince of Wales Island
Online Access:http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90377
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Summary:Airplane Boon To Sick: Alaska Flyer Brings Woman And Baby To Hospital. AIRPLANE BOON TO SICK Alaska Flyer Brlngs Woman and Baby to Hospital. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 12. (/P)—With the fall and winter airplane service for the first time in day believed it proved its value when Pioneer Airways planes brought two sick persons from outlying sections to a hospital here. Pilot Jim Dodson made a 200-mile flight yesterday to bring an ill babyon the west coast of Prince of Wales island, with its parents, to the hospital. The day before he picked up a sick woman at Hydeburg, near the southern and of the island, and brought her here.

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