Harold R. Harris Papers 1920-1988

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Harold R. Harris Papers 1920-1988

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Harris was a World War I flyer and test pilot at McCook Field in Dayton during the early 1920s. He later became an executive with Pan American Airlines, American Overseas Airlines, and Northwest Airlines, as well as holding the rank of Colonel in the Army Air Transport Command during World War II. His papers consist of extensive correspondence, both personal and business, travel diaries, reports, newspaper clippings, personal logs detailing his activities and movements, speeches, photographs, and the manuscript of an unpublished book he authored about Pan American Airlines.

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Harris, Harold R., 1897-1989

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Brigadier General Harold R. Harris was born in 1895 in Chicago, Illinois. He moved to Los Angeles, California, early in his life, and in an early example of his love of aviation, he played hooky from school at age 14 to attend the first national aviation meeting at Dominquez Field, Los Angeles, during its run from January 10-20, 1910. He graduated from Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles and the Throop Polytechnic Institute (later known as the California Institute of Technology),...

American Overseas Airlines.

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Northwest Airlines, inc.

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Northwest Airlines was incorporated in 1926 as Northwest Airways. The company began service on October 1, 1926, as an airmail carrier between the Twin Cities and Chicago. Passenger service was inaugurated in July 1927. Northwest expanded its service through the Dakotas and Montana to Spokane and Seattle, Washington, in 1928-1933. The company was reincorporated as Northwest Airlines, Inc. in 1934. During World War II the company set up and operated a military cargo route ...