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Time Remaining To Bid: 64 days 17 hours 50 mins. 9 secs.
Item Will Close On Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 8:30:00 PM CST

Lot Number: 5936002

Category: L53 - Estate & Personal Collections

BRIG.GENERAL HAROLD R. HARRIS PERSONAL ESTATE GROUPING

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Brig.General Harold Harris began his flying career during World War I when in 1917 he attended the School of Military Aeronautics in Berkeley, California. He was then sent overseas with a group of American pilots to Foggia, Italy, for Caproni Bomber Operations.
After World War I, from 1918 to 1925 Harris served as Test Pilot and Chief of Flight Test Research for the Army Air Corps at McCook Field. He played an active role in setting up and operating the first lighted airway, an 80-mile stretch of land between Columbus and Dayton, Ohio. In 1922, while a test pilot at McCook Field Harris, then a Lieutenant, became the first pilot in this country to resort to a parachute in an emergency when he bailed out of his disintegrating experimental pursuit plane near Dayton, Ohio. Also during this time Harris competed in many Aviation meets, and in 1926 held thirteen world flying records. For more information on Harris go to http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/manuscripts/ms214.html

Group includes WWI era mis-matched captain rank insignia + sterling marked aviation officers winged prop. collar device.

For more information on this collection go to http://www.manions.com/block.htm  Condition: 7

Opening Bid Amount: $20

Current Bid Amount: $20 Total Bids: 1
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