Golemac, Antone M Allen, Riley Harris, 1884-1966 Balchen, Bernt, 1899-1973 Barnes, K. B Bateman, M. C Boedecker, Kenneth J Breese, Vance Cadagan, C. C Cooper, E. O Davis, Laurence S Davis, W. V., Jr Dole, James D. (James Drummond), 1877- Eastburn, Glen B Eichwaldt, Florence Farrington, Joseph R. (Joseph Rider), 1897-1954 Ferguson, Ian M Gephart, Valentine Goebel, Arthur Cornelius, 1895-1973 Griffin, Bennett H Grossnick, Roy A Guillot, G Hamilton, John A Hancock, J. B Hanson, E. S Hinman, Ralph S Holmes, Helen V Howard, Herbert B Jensen, Martin Jernigan, Roger A Jones, Maude Kemmerly, Jack D Koger, Edward O Koger, Paul C Lochman, Bessebel Wagner Logan, Jack E Martin, Glenn L. (Glenn Luther), 1886-1955 Mattson, M. V May, C. F Meacham, O. E Milliken, Eugene J Morrison, Mrs. S. R Nelson, Lyle Northrop, John Knudsen, 1895-1981 Parker, Will D Patterson, Patrick Penfield, Thomas, Mrs Peterson, Marie Scott, Denham S Sheehan, J. V Smith, Maurice H Streetor, Sylvia Wagner, William Waldorf, Howard V., 1901-1992 White, Vibian M Wyatt, Ben H
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Antone M. Golemac was born in 1916 and as an eleven-year-old in the Midwest witnessed an airplane taking off to participate in the Dole Air Race from Oakland to Honolulu. Golemac subsequently did extensive research on the race but his findings appear to have not been published. The Dole Air Race, inspired by Charles A. Lindbergh's Transatlantic flight earlier the same year, was financed by Hawaiian pineapple magnate James D. Dole, who put up a prize of $25,000.00 for the first fixed-wing aircraft to fly from Oakland to Honolulu, with $10,000.00 allotted to the second-place winner. By the time the race began on August 16, 1927 the contestants had diminished to eight aircraft, of which only four were actually able to leave California for Hawaii. Of those, only two arrived in Honolulu. Among the fliers lost at sea was Mildred Doran, a Caro, Michigan schoolteacher. Letters written to and from Antone Golemac pertaining to the Dole Air Race of 1927. Golemac. Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library. California State Library, California History Room
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