Dear AA history buffs,

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I find AA history fascinating—who wouldn’t! However, it has not been engraved deeply into a stone of irretrievable “facts.”? Bill Wilson will remember an event a particular way, but? ?Ebby Thacher remembers otherwise. But then a newspaper explanation will be again differently all together.? Some of us have read about Bill and Ebby’s airplane “ Jag.” As Bill tells it on page 84 of PASS IT ON: “A new airport was being built at Manchester, but no planes had yet landed.” ??Ebby Thacher also reiterates this “first landing” fact, below.? ?

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However, please read the report from the attached newspaper article from THE MANCHESTER JOURNAL and you will find the first landing actually happened about six months earlier!

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Just one instance! To learn of further AA history “inexactitudes,’’ I would suggest reading WRITING the BIG BOOK, by William H. Schaberg.

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Remember: “In our history lies our hope!” We are AA history for those yet to be born.

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Bob S

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