Air Mail Pioneers 1934

Clarence Chamberlain, left, trans-Atlantic flyer, is shown with War Secretary George Dern, center, and Maj. Gen. H.A. Drum, assistant chief of staff of the Army and chairman of the special committee on which Chamberlain and Charles A. Lindbergh were placed to investigate army flying of the air mail, in Washington, D.C., March 14, 1934. Chamberlain went to Washington to confer about the investigation soon after his appointment was announced. (AP Photo)