Collection, 1988-1991.

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Collection, 1988-1991.

Collection contains biographical information, an obituary, and eulogy for William R. Bomar. There is also a biographical sketch of his wife, Birdie P. Bomar, a Delta Air Lines flight attendent. Bomar's Eastern Air Lines Captain's cap is included.

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Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7374084

Auburn University.

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Bomar, Birdie P.

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Bomar, William R., 1913-1991.

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William R. Bomar was a veteran of the Army Air Corps from World War II and also a pilot for Eastern Air Lines. From the description of Collection, 1988-1991. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 35698970 ...

Eastern Air Lines, inc.

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Founded in 1927 as Pitcairn Aviation, this company changed its name in 1930 to Eastern Air Transport, and ca. 1934, to Eastern Air Lines, underwhich it was known until the company ceased operations in 1991; Dexter C. Martin (1897-1982) was an aviation pioneer and public official, of South Carolina. Eugene Earle Stone (fl. 1976) served as President of the Florence Ice and Fuel Company, Chairman of the Florence Airport Commission, and Chairman of the South Carolina Dairy Association. F...

Delta Air Lines

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Delta Airlines began in Macon, Georgia in 1924 as a crop dusting company called Huff Daland Dusters. The company moved to Monroe, Louisiana in 1925 and soon had the largest privately owned aircraft fleet in the world. In 1928 the company was renamed Delta Air Service. Passenger operations began in 1929, and in 1934, the company secured a contract to deliver mail on a southern route that stretched from Texas to South Carolina. In 1941, the company established its corporate headquarters in Atlanta...

Bomar, William L., 1961-

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