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UNH: 1918 USGS map of Hazelhurst/Roosevelt Field and environs
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Hazelhurst was a native of Georgia and was a graduate of the
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791:List of Training Section Air Service airfields
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364:Signal Corps Aviation Station, Mineola
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385:Leighton Wilson Hazelhurst Jr.
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825:Stoff, Joshua (2001).
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413:John Purroy Mitchel
331:Charles Lindbergh's
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112:Westbury, New York
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894:2009-09-04
797:References
652:René Fonck
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343:Wiley Post
333:1927 solo
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