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Show AIR COMMUTER GETS BOOST Veterans had joined public service serv-ice officials in moves to make air-lane air-lane commuter service as regular at the 5:15 this week in two eastern east-ern cities as the West focused attention at-tention on aviation in miniature. Boston recently reported Wilfred N. Turcotte, Jr., former pilot of one of the first B-29 planes to fly over Tokyo, happily commuting 70 miles to and from a training school in a tiny Aeronca. Both the pilot and his father are studying mechanics at the New England Aircraft School under provisions of the G. I. Bill of Rights. The father is a veteran of both the Army Air Forces and the merchant merch-ant marine. The two commute each day from their backyard in Ware, Mass., to the school in East Boston and make the 70-mile trip in 30 minutes. min-utes. They reported that it had formerly taken them 45 minutes to go from a lodging house in the Back Bay area of Boston to. the school. The young pilot won the Distinguished ' Flying Cross and the Air Medal with six oak leaf clusters and completed 35 bombing bomb-ing missions in the Pacific area. His father made 16 Atlantic crossings cross-ings on Liberty ships. |