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PILOT STORIES: Cook, Harvey Weir

Air Mail Service Began: August 23, 1920
Air Mail Service Ended: December 8, 1920
Assignments: College Park, Maryland
  September 7, 1920 – Chicago, Illinois
  September 16, 1920 – Omaha, Nebraska
  October 11, 1920 – Cheyenne, Wyoming

Harvey Weir Cook spent only a few months in the airmail service. During that time, he was assigned for three months to the Western Division. After flying the Rock Springs to Salt Lake City route, he called that 150 miles "the rottenest stretch of territory in the country."

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