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Commander Knefler Mcginnis with 4 other officers the VP-10 Squadron, stand beside a Navy seaplane, San Francisco, 1933

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Title: Commander Knefler Mcginnis with 4 other officers the VP-10 Squadron, stand beside a Navy seaplane, San Francisco, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: December 1933
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Probably related to another photograph of the VP-10 Squadron with the caption: Six Leaders Discuss Route of Trip Across Pacific. Looking Over Aerial Map of Mass Flight. Left to right--Lieutenant-Commander Knefler McGinnis, commander of the flight, Pilot and navigator, Lieut. H. J. McRoberts, pilot and navigator; Lieut. F. A. Davis, pilot and navigator; Lieut. T. D. Guinn, pilot and navigator; Lieut. J. Perry, pilot and navigator; J. K. Averill, pilot and navigator. These men command the six ships which will make the mass flight from San Francisco to Honolulu. [Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 1933].
Knefler Mcginnis (center), commander, with four other officers of the VP-10 Squadron beside a Navy seaplane. The other officers are probably 4 of the 5 who flew the first non-stop formation flight from San Francisco (Mare Island, San Pablo Bay) to Pearl Harbor.
Text from negative sleeve: U.S. Navy, Air Corps, Airplanes, P2Y-1
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4243
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: United States. Navy. Patrol Squadron VP-10
McGinnis, Knefler, 1892-1980
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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