In the summer of 1948, he took the group to Germany in a show-of-force response to the Berlin blockade, and in 1951, he flew from Britain to Maine in the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight by a jet fighter.
He took the group to Germany in a show-of-force response to the Berlin blockade. This was in the summer of 1948. He flew from Britain to Maine in the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight by a jet fighter. This was in 1951. This was in the summer of 1948.