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

Refer to caption — This clipping from an unidentified newspaper show a photograph of Howard Smith.

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.