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Photo courtesy of Roy Nagl
According to the 1977 edition of the American
Air Mail Catalogue, the pilots that flew the April 15, 1926 inaugural
flight for CAM Route 2 were Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Philip R. Love,
and Thomas P. Nelson, and they, along with H.A. Gurney, E.L. Sloniger,
and Leslie H. Smith, also flew the February 20-21, 1928 special flights
that honored Lindbergh's two-day return to the route. CAM Route 2 was
extended on July 20, 1931, from St. Louis to Memphis, Tennessee, and
the pilots on the inaugural flights, for this extension, were T.R. Howe
and Ira McConaughey.
Time Magazine Nelson died in crash flying the mail:
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