Northwest History. Alaska. Mercy Flights.

Pilot Wins Mercy Race: Carries Stricken Boy 1000 Miles Through Fog And Rain. PILOT WINS MERCY RACE Carries Stricken Boy 1000 Miles Through Fog and Rain. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 6. (/P) —Pilot Harry Blunt, carrying appendicitis-stricken David Looff, 4-year-old son of Henry Looff of Alitak, Kodiak isl...

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Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1933
Subjects:
Anchorage
Alaska
Harry Blunt
David Looff
Henry Looff
Alitak
Kodiak island
mercy race
hospital
Northwest
Pacific > History > 20th century
Pacific
Kodiak
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spelling ftwashstatelib:oai:content.libraries.wsu.edu:clipping/90379 2023-05-15T17:04:35+02:00 Northwest History. Alaska. Mercy Flights. Spokesman Review 1933-08-06 Pilot Wins Mercy Race: Carries Stricken Boy 1000 Miles Through Fog And Rain. 1933-08-06 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90379 English eng nwh-sh-7-13-14-4 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90379 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0 Copyright not evaluated. Contact original newspaper publisher for copyright information. Northwest History. Alaska. Box 7 Anchorage Alaska Harry Blunt David Looff Henry Looff Alitak Kodiak island mercy race hospital Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century Text Clippings 1933 ftwashstatelib 2021-07-26T19:18:12Z Pilot Wins Mercy Race: Carries Stricken Boy 1000 Miles Through Fog And Rain. PILOT WINS MERCY RACE Carries Stricken Boy 1000 Miles Through Fog and Rain. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 6. (/P) —Pilot Harry Blunt, carrying appendicitis-stricken David Looff, 4-year-old son of Henry Looff of Alitak, Kodiak island, landed, here late yesterday, 35 hours after he took off, winning a mercy race during which the plaine covered a round trip of more than 1000 miles through heavy fog and rain. The boy, operated upon at an Anchorage hospital, is reported doing "splendidly." Text Kodiak Alaska Washington State University: WSU Libraries Digital Collections Anchorage Pacific
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topic Anchorage
Alaska
Harry Blunt
David Looff
Henry Looff
Alitak
Kodiak island
mercy race
hospital
Northwest
Pacific -- History -- 20th century
spellingShingle Anchorage
Alaska
Harry Blunt
David Looff
Henry Looff
Alitak
Kodiak island
mercy race
hospital
Northwest
Pacific -- History -- 20th century
Northwest History. Alaska. Mercy Flights.
topic_facet Anchorage
Alaska
Harry Blunt
David Looff
Henry Looff
Alitak
Kodiak island
mercy race
hospital
Northwest
Pacific -- History -- 20th century
description Pilot Wins Mercy Race: Carries Stricken Boy 1000 Miles Through Fog And Rain. PILOT WINS MERCY RACE Carries Stricken Boy 1000 Miles Through Fog and Rain. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 6. (/P) —Pilot Harry Blunt, carrying appendicitis-stricken David Looff, 4-year-old son of Henry Looff of Alitak, Kodiak island, landed, here late yesterday, 35 hours after he took off, winning a mercy race during which the plaine covered a round trip of more than 1000 miles through heavy fog and rain. The boy, operated upon at an Anchorage hospital, is reported doing "splendidly."
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title Northwest History. Alaska. Mercy Flights.
title_short Northwest History. Alaska. Mercy Flights.
title_full Northwest History. Alaska. Mercy Flights.
title_fullStr Northwest History. Alaska. Mercy Flights.
title_full_unstemmed Northwest History. Alaska. Mercy Flights.
title_sort northwest history. alaska. mercy flights.
publishDate 1933
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Pacific
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Pacific
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Alaska
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Alaska
op_source Northwest History. Alaska. Box 7
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