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Follow-up: Samuel Eaton crash landingEntry/Object ID
2013.13.1.143Description
Clippings and memorabilia from World War I scrapbook compiled by Dr. Naaman H. Keyser, page 139.
A single newspaper from an August 12, 1919 unidentified newspaper is glued to page 139, and bears the headline "Plane in Tree Top Mecca for Curious." It continues with "United States mail airplane No. 38 is still hanging today in the ancient Germantown oak tree that saved its pilot from injury and possible death yesterday. The spot picked by the aviator for his forced landing is proving a hard puzzle for the air postal authorities here. How to get the airplane out of the tree is the question. In the meantime two policemen are posted at the foot of the tree, and curious persons from miles around are coming to gaze at the modern wonder, which is on the estate of E. J. Johnson, 331 West Johnson st. The airplane, carrying mail from Washington to New York, was forced to descend yesterday on account of engine trouble. The pilot, Samuel Custer Eaton, 6324 Woodstock st., selected the oak as the softest place in sight, and made a safe landing there, which is about one square mile from the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Eaton, 6319 Sherman st. His wife, Helen, and their six-month-old baby, Samuel Eaton, 3d, were in the crowd that watched the rescue of the aviator.
Pages are 7.5 x 10".Photograph Details
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