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Marine Aviator Sets New Speed Record; Flies 259 Miles An Hour, No Date

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Article reporting that Lt. L. H. Sanderson, marines, traveled 259 mph in a Navy Wright fighter. It was noted that Sanderson set the record at 238 mph the week prior yet that record was broken by Lt. Harold J. Brow only a few days later.
Title: Marine Aviator Sets New Speed Record; Flies 259 Miles An Hour, No Date.
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Name(s): Unknown Publication, Newspaper
Associated Press, Author
Type of Resource: still image
Genre: Newspaper Clipping
Publisher: West Florida History Center, UWF Libraries, digitized from materials loaned by the National Naval Aviation Museum
Extent: 1 newspaper clipping
Language(s): Eng
Summary: Article reporting that Lt. L. H. Sanderson, marines, traveled 259 mph in a Navy Wright fighter. It was noted that Sanderson set the record at 238 mph the week prior yet that record was broken by Lt. Harold J. Brow only a few days later.
Identifier: uwfnam_HJBbox3_ND_MarineAviatorSetsRecord (IID)
Note(s): A Project of the Gulf Coast Maritime Digital Portal Project
Subject(s): Brow, Harold J. -- Aviation History -- Naval History -- 1920's
Held by: University of West Florida
Held by: National Naval Aviation Museum
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/uwf/fd/uwfnam_HJBbox3_ND_MarineAviatorSetsRecord
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Host Institution: UWF

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