2015

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Carroll T. “Tommy” Tompkins

By IOWA AVIATION MUSEUM

Carroll T. Tomkins was born in Stockport, Iowa in 1923. Carroll T. “TOMMY†Tomkins career would take him from the aerial battlefields of World War II to the operations of a successful southwest Iowa flight service and continued as a…

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Marie Mountain Clark

By IOWA AVIATION MUSEUM

Marie Mountain Clark was born at West Liberty in 1915. Reared on a farm in West Des Moines, Iowa, she and her younger sister were assigned to turn on the aircraft marker lights on the Des Moines Radio Range tower. …

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