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so wonderful. Memory Eternal

Wonderful photo. Two veterans of the American Civil War, flying together over the Gettysburg battlefield they fought upon and against each other, 73 years after the conflict ended. Our surviving veterans of the Second World War are almost at the same point in time. I noticed Mr. William H. Jackson's name is provided in the caption with the photo, but not the name of the other veteran. It would seem that has been lost somewhere in the shuffle. Does the Library of Congress have a record of the other veteran's name? Some minutia concerning the photo. These veterans are flying in the rear starboard side of the passenger cabin of a Boeing 247D airliner, belonging to Pennsylvania Central Airlines (PCA).

This is nothing short of amazing.

Poignant moment captured here. To think they experienced the American Civil War, and lived to see the Spanish-American, WWI and on the verge of WWII.

Pretty darn cool.

Boeing 207

Boeing 247 this one?

Harry Huking, Regnar T. Freng, and J.H. Woodward are pictured at Oakland Airport in 1936, examining an antenna array being tested by United Air Lines (UAL) and Bendix Radio Corporation on a Boeing 247, as part of an experimental instrument landing system that was initially developed by the National Bureau of Standards (NBS). See: Innovation and the Development of Flight, by Roger D. Launius, Texas A&M University Press, 1999; Pages 91-92.