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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i... |
| Date: | 07 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Dozens of boys at Camp Wakanda on the north shore of Lake Mendota watch rescue work on an airplane which has crashed into the lake near shore. Tom Langloi... |
| Date: | 07 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Rescue of airplane which has crashed into Lake Mendota near the north shore. View of the airplane from the water toward the shore and Camp Wakanda. Tom La... |
| Date: | 02 06 1949 |
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| Description: | A Cessna 140 airplane, which crash landed on Lake Mendota. The pilot, Harold Guehrer, and passenger John Koeppel, both from Milwaukee, were injured. |
| Date: | 06 16 1949 |
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| Description: | "This crop dusting plane crashed and burned on the Lucy Firk's property on the north end of the village." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across stream in marshy area towards a group of people gathered around an aircraft wreck. |
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