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First C-82 Packet Transatlantic Flight

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:47 pm
by Pete
'Hello All,
My Uncle Bill(COL William F Mandt III USAF, now deceased) made the
first ever trans-Atlantic flight in a C-82 Packet. I visited him at
Fort Bragg and he took me aboard a C-82 and the then new C-119. Does
anyone here remember or know of him?
Peter Smith,
San Diego
petefmsd@hotmail.com'