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Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla. March 27, 1939 Dr. W. L. Schmitt, Curator Smithsonian Institute Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Schmitt; I hope you will forgive this regrettable delay in answering your letter of 13 February, but your letter took a round about course. I was detached from the Houston 1 Feb. From Charleston it went to New York, then to Cuba, and then to the Air Station at Pensacola where I am now taking aviation training. I regret to inform you that I am not your man; Ens. B. Johnson took the searching party ashore and I am sure he is the man who has the information on the picture you refer to. I hoped to have the pleasure of seeing you again on my home