Frank Wead
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican naval aviator and screenwriter (1895-1947)
S. Navy aviator who helped promote United States Naval aviation from its inception through World War II. Commander Wead was a recognized authority on early aviation. Following a crippling spinal injury in 1926, Wead was placed on the retired list.
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Twenty-year-old Midshipman Frank Wilbur Wead, Class of 1916 yearbook photograph taken by the United States Naval Academy photographer.
Winning team of the Seventh Schneider Trophy Contest: The American seaplane team adjacent to their hangar in Cowes seaport town, Isle of Wight (an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, 2 to 5 miles off the coast of Hampshire, across the Solent). Those with their signatures listed would depart for the Port of Southampton and board S.S Leviathan (United States Lines; commander- Captain Herbert Hartly). The ocean liner departed Tuesday, 9 October 1923, stopped at Cherbourg and then arrived at New York Harbor on Monday, 15 October 1923.Awards 5
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Frank Wilbur "Spig" Wead was a U.S. Navy aviator who helped promote United States Naval aviation from its inception through World War II. Commander Wead was a recognized authority on early aviation. Following a crippling spinal injury in 1926, Wead was placed on the retired list. In the 1930s, he became a screenwriter, becoming involved in more than 30 movies. He also published several books, short stories and magazine articles. During World War II, he returned to active duty. He initially worked in a planning role, but later undertook sea duty in the Pacific, where he saw action against the Japanese in 1943-44 before being placed on the retired list in mid-1945.
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