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![[William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, Box 27, Folder 16 - "Miriam Johnson pilots British American Ambulance Corps Learadio-equipped WACO on 3 month tour of US," 1941 February 24]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/b9afea423013a972d0f5768399237806.jpg "[William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, Box 27, Folder 16 - \"Miriam Johnson pilots British American Ambulance Corps Learadio-equipped WACO on 3 month tour of US,\" 1941 February 24]")
Items from Box 27, Folder 16 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, February 24, 1941. Contains a Lear Avia Corporation press release and photograph related to a British American Ambulance Corps (BAAC) flying tour, carried out by pilot Miriam Johnson, BAAC Vice President H. Terrell Van Ingen, and radio operator Earl Evans in a Lear-equipped Waco aircraft. The photograph depicts Johnson, Van…
![[William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, Box 27, Folder 21 - "Miss Dickey Meyer joins Lear Avia as press liaison," 1941 April 2]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/4c8986cd792d581a8adb0ee8c617bbfe.jpg "[William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, Box 27, Folder 21 - \"Miss Dickey Meyer joins Lear Avia as press liaison,\" 1941 April 2]")
Items from Box 27, Folder 21 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, April 2, 1941. Contains a Lear Avia Corporation press release and photograph related to the hiring of Dickey Meyer as a press liaison. The photograph depicts Meyer in a flight helmet. Two total documents.
[Sydney Nesbitt presenting Learadio Model APR-A portable receiver to Katherine Rawls Thompson]
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![[Sydney Nesbitt presenting Learadio Model APR-A portable receiver to Katherine Rawls Thompson]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/191f336325b3bdfde0a3bb9134278b9a.jpg "[Sydney Nesbitt presenting Learadio Model APR-A portable receiver to Katherine Rawls Thompson]")
Photograph of Sydney Nesbitt (left) presenting a Learadio Model APR-A portable receiver to Katherine Rawls Thompson, winner of the Alcazar Trophy Race, Miami, Florida, January 1941. An unidentified U.S. Marine Corps serviceman stands in the background. The accompanying Lear Avia press release describes the event. Thompson's first name is misspelled as "Catherine" in the press release.