Virtual Museum D. Ray Comish Short Snorter (Dated 4-22-41)
The Short Snorter Project
LEFT: Photograph of the Dixie Clipper (NC18605)
which was one of the two actual aircraft used to
fly FDR on the mission to Casablanca.
Boeing 314, different name.
BELOW: Photograph of D. Ray Comish.
(All photos courtesy of Rick Comish)
Richard W. Vinal.by R Richard W. "Dick" Vinal, Jr., wrote that his father told him that FDR was transferred between the
"My dad had a picture of the crane rig that was set up to move FDR. I remember the picture very well, as he was being
"My dad had a picture of the crane rig that was set up to move FDR. I remember the picture very well, as he was being
FDR. I remember the picture very well, as he was being transferred from the Dixie to the American and my dad was in
the background."the background."
I was re-reading your last Short Snorter
article, with the images on the bills, and one
name stood out, that I never saw the first
time, Brooks Leffingwell.
The Leffingwell's were good friends of
our's while growing up in South Miami.
Brooks was a pilot for PanAm for awhile,
but took an early retirement. His daughter,
Suzy, and I were the same age and went
through school together.
Dick Vinal, Jr.