Commander Knefler Mcginnis with 4 other officers the VP-10 Squadron, stand beside a Navy seaplane, San Francisco, 1933

Title: Commander Knefler Mcginnis with 4 other officers the VP-10 Squadron, stand beside a Navy seaplane, San Francisco, 1933
Date Created: December 1933
Date: 1932-12
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Knefler Mcginnis (center), commander, with four other officers of the VP-10 Squadron beside a Navy seaplane. The other officers are probably 4 of the 5 who flew the first non-stop formation flight from San Francisco (Mare Island, San Pablo Bay) to Pearl Harbor.
Probably related to another photograph of the VP-10 Squadron with the caption: Six Leaders Discuss Route of Trip Across Pacific. Looking Over Aerial Map of Mass Flight. Left to right--Lieutenant-Commander Knefler McGinnis, commander of the flight, Pilot and navigator, Lieut. H. J. McRoberts, pilot and navigator; Lieut. F. A. Davis, pilot and navigator; Lieut. T. D. Guinn, pilot and navigator; Lieut. J. Perry, pilot and navigator; J. K. Averill, pilot and navigator. These men command the six ships which will make the mass flight from San Francisco to Honolulu. [Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 1933].
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: U.S. Navy, Air Corps, Airplanes, P2Y-1

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: United States. Navy. Patrol Squadron VP-10
McGinnis, Knefler, 1892-1980
Location: San Francisco (Calif.)
Longitude: 38.106989
Latitude: -122.286822
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_4243
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cq0pd
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