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Lt. Irvin (Bert) Woodring with the wreck of Boeing P-12B No. 29-436, which crashed at Mather Field, Calif., April 22, 1930. He survived this crash only to die in a midair explosion in 1933.

Aviator Art Goebel to the left side of the frame, his mother Emma Goebel, and famed Air Corps pilot Ira "Bert" Woodring on the right.

This is Lockheed Explorer c/n148, NR101W, 'Yankee Doodle', built for Goebel but never flown by him. Later sold to Pure Oil Company renamed 'Blue Flash' and flown by pilot Roy Ammel. Plane crashed on take off from France Field, Canal Zone on November 21, 1930.

Lieutenant Irvin A. (Bert) Woodring, born February 1, 1902 in Enid, Oklahoma Territory. In 1928, Woodring was one of the U.S. Army Air Corps' "Three Musketeers of Aviation" along with fellow pilots John J. Williams and William L. Cornelius. The group performed aerobatics at the National Air Races and other such events until Williams and Cornelius died in separate air crashes within two weeks of one another in 1928. On January 20, 1933, Bert Woodring fell 2,000 feet to his death over Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, when his Consolidated P-30 two-place fighter exploded in mid-air. His hometown renamed its airport Woodring Municipal Airport in his memory.