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PILOT STORIES: Smith, Howard F.

Air Mail Service Began: September 15, 1920
Air Mail Service Ended: July 16, 1921
Assignments: College Park, Maryland
  October 12, 1920 – Chicago, Illinois
  July 1, 1921 – San Francisco, California

Howard Smith died when his airplane stalled and crashed in California. He had just taken off from San Francisco's Marina Field, ferrying de Havilland #222 to the next airmail field.

 
   
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