TAKE A MESSAGE: Aviation cadets at the Navy's balloon school, Moffat Field, California, send a message to their base by way of a homing pigeon. The young men are left to right, Cadets Ben M. Shera of Lebanon, IN; James T. Walls of Portland, OR; and
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