A vintage magazine photographic illustration of the AMERICAN AVIATOR CARL BEN EIELSON, in whose honor Alaska's Eielson Air Force Base is named, pictu

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- A 12-1/8 inch high by 8-3/4 inch wide leaf from the Argentinian sports magazine "El Grafico", with a full-page illustration of the American aviator & explorer Carl Ben Eielson, in the year he and Sir George Hubert Wilkins flew from North America over the North Pole to Europe. Eielson, attired in a heavy coat over pilot's leather pants and wearing a leather pilot's hat, is pictured against a background of snow next to the polar explorer George Hubert Wilkins. The corners are slightly creased and there are stab-marks along the page's right edge. A color illustration of the "Primera Division del Club Atletico Boca Juniors" soccer team is portrayed on the verso. Good. The American aviator, bush pilot and explorer Carl Ben Eielson (1897-1929) learned to fly in the U.S. Army Air Service in 1917 and served in the Signal Corps during the First World War. While supporting himself as a Capitol police officer while studying law at Georgetown Law School, he met Daniel Sutherland, then Alaska's d

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