Telegram from Gerston on September 5, 1918
National Postal Museum

Telegram from Gerston on September 5, 1918

Benjamin B. Lipsner, American, 1887 - 1971 · September 15, 1918

paper; ink
National Postal Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
National Postal Museum

Louis Gerston, senior Post Office Department pilot, wrote a Western Union telegram to the Post Office Department’s Superintendent of Airmail Service, Benjamin Lipsner, in Chicago informing him that Max Miller had not arrived in Cleveland as expected, but that he would rush him through the process of getting in and out of the Cleveland airfield so that he could continue his pathfinder flight.

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