Northwest History. Alaska. Mercy Flights.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Mercy flight; nonstop; Juneau; Alaska; Joseph Sheldon; physician; Bristol Bay; typhoid fever; Bering sea; the north Pacific; John W. Troy; Benjamin L. Grimes; Mae Riebette; Thelma Shiriver; M. Oygard; serum; Dillingham; Snag Point; Nushagak; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Bering Sea; Pacific; Snag
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90391

Mercy Flight To Be Nonstop. MERCY FLIGHT TO BE NONSTOP By Associated Press. JUNEAU, Alaska, July 24.-Another chapter in the northland's famed series of "mercy flights" was begun here today when Pilot Joseph Sheldon took off with a physician, three trained nurses and serum for the nort...