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Show Lieut. Dean Snow . On Good-Will Tour t There must be such a thing as "luck" thinks Lieut. Dean B. Snow, son of Pres. and Mrs. Harold Har-old S. Snow of this city, who last week was given the opportunity of his life, thus far, in being permitted per-mitted to go as a co-pilot on a good-will tour for the main Martin aircraft factory to Baltimore, Omaha and other centers where this company operates factories. Not less interesting than the trip itself was the fact that the quartet of flyers were piloting two of the B26 bombers, two of the earliest outputs of the Martin company, which were on duty in the Aluetians at the time the Japs attacked Dutch Harbor, and were part of the squadron that piled up scores against the Japs. The two bombers bear sketches of the Jap ships they captured, and the two captains who flew them to Baltimore have just returned re-turned from the combat areas, ' wun wnom uean was co-pilot hav- ing served in the Southewest Pa-i Pa-i cific area around Australia and i- New Guinea. The big idea with the Martin . company, is to have these captains . lecture before their employees and give them an idea of what their ; ships are doing in the theatres of action, and along with the meetings Lieut. Snow figures this is a real opportunity for a naturally nat-urally bashful Dixie boy, who was amazed at the big fuss and photography pho-tography and celebrating for such an event. It was a thrillng experience to go through the company's plants and see the planes being turned out, to go aboard the "Mars", the largest airplane in the world, to talk with Mr. Martin himself and his mother, and meet the big executives of the plant, whom he writes, "are not flashy, but just to look at them you can tell they really know their business". Mr. and Mrs. Snow have just received the "kit" made up for the pilots by the company, and containing many pictures of the trip and a desk model of the B-26. Of this model he writes, "I want you to keep and eagle eye out for it though, because it is really worth something to me". Lieut. Snow is stationed at Mac-Dill Mac-Dill Field, Fla., and this trip to Baltimore is an experience that seldom comes to a country boy, so he's trying to ge the most possible pos-sible out of it for future use. |