Randolph G. Page First Lieutenant, United States Army Air Service |
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G. PAGE DEAD
First To Carry Night Air Mail From New York to San Francisco FORT WORTH, Texas, February 21, 1930 – Randolph G. Page, Vice President of Texhoma Aeronautical Service, Inc., and air-mail trail blazer, died here today after a brief illness. He was 36 years old. Mr. Page, who had been an aviator for fifteen years, made the first night air-mail flight in the United States and delivered the first continental air-mail bags from New York to San Francisco in September 1920. The body will be sent to Washington, D.C. for
burial in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Posted: 10 January 2008 |