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Back to EpisodesHolger "Hold Your Horses" Hoiriis: Fighting Nazis in the Catskills
Episode 421
Published 1 year, 1 month ago
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ABC:LHS #078-3 Holger Hoiriis...
...bought an airplane in 1924 and took up barnstorming. He was the first pilot to carry a paying customer across the Atlantic and the first pilot to complete night airmail delivery for the US Postal service. After the war a story emerged about the time he was hijacked by Nazi agents in the Catskills.