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Top left--De Haviland twin six Air Mail plane now in use on the Chicago-Twin Cities run.  The Air Mail service remodeled many De Haviland war planes to permit equipment with twin "liberty" motors. 

Top right--Randolph G. Page, Washington Boy, second oldest pilot in the Air Mail Service, now in his sixteenth month of active duty. Page is on the Washington-New York run. 

Left center--Otto  Praeger,  Second Assistant Postmaster General, under whose general supervision the Air Mail is managed. 

Center oval--Putting 400 pounds of New York mail aboard a Curtiss R-4 at the Washington Terminal, College Park, Md.  Mail is rushed to the plane by motor truck from the City Postoffice. 

Right  center--Charles I. Stanton, General Superintendent of the Air Mail, and (below) D.  V.  Colyer, Chief of Flying, who direct operations asd see that the mail "gets through."

At the left-Map showing air lines now operating and those proposed in this country and the West Indies.