The Forgotten Search for a North Island Plane
Winn Room, Coronado Public Library 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, United StatesLocal award-winning historian and preservationist Alexander D. Bevil will use historic photographs and maps to reveal a forgotten chapter in North Island’s early military history: the search for missing pilot 1st Lieutenant Charles L. Webber, and his passenger, Assistant Chief of Cavalry Lt. Colonel Frances C. Marshall. The search, which lasted from December 7, 1922 to February 1923, was the largest and longest combined air and ground search in […]