Delivering the Mail Was Once One of the Riskiest Jobs in America
A new exhibition at the National Postal Museum honors the nation’s first airmail pilots
By Adam Cohen
May 18, 2018
On May 15, 1918, as hundreds of thousands of American troops fought from the trenches of Western Europe, a small number of U.S. Army pilots took on a domestic mission. Though they worked in the skies above East Coast cities, far from the carnage of World War I, their task was life-threatening, and it was as crucial to the nation’s psyche as any conflict fought on foreign soil. While their peers carried bombs across the Atlantic, these men carried the mail.
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