Reminiscences of Leroy Ponton de Arce : oral history, 1960.

Leish, Kenneth W.

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Ponton de Arce, Leroy.

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Leroy Ponton de Arce was an American aviator, air force officer, and federal air traffic control official during the twentieth century. Ponton de Arce learned to fly in the U.S. Army Signal Corps Aviation Section in 1917 and served in France with the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I. After holding a number of jobs during the 1920s and 1930s, he became a federal air traffic control official in 1937. He went on to a long and distinguished career with the Civil Aeronautics Authority and its...