Photograph of Captain Benjamin B. Lipsner presenting flag to pilot Max Miller

1918

This is a photograph of Capt. Benjamin B. Lipsner presenting a silk American flag to pilot Max Miller on the occassion of the first air mail flight from Elizabeth, NJ to Philadelphia, Thanksgiving Day, 1918. Superintendent of Publicity for Standard Aircraft Corp., Julius M. Merrick standing by. The flight left from Standard Aircraft Corp. flying field.