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PILOT STORIES: Robert
Shank
| Air Mail
Service Began: |
August 2, 1918 |
| Air Mail Service Ended: |
November 19, 1918 |
| Pilot Rehired: |
January 1, 1919 |
| Air Mail Service Ended: |
April 16, 1919 |
| Assignment: |
Belmont Park, New York |
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January 1, 1919 – Belmont Park,
New York |
Appointed August 2, 1918, Robert Shank was the last of the four pilots to join the Air Mail Service. On November 19, 1918, Shrank and pilot Eddie Gardner were fired when the pair refused to carry mail in a low-visibility fog that had already claimed the life of one pilot that morning.
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