China Clipper airplane, with a man sitting in a car next to it. A possible identification would be the originator of this collection, Captain William August Cluthe. According to a July 9, 1969 Evansville Courier article, he died July 7, 1969. He was a Central High School graduate and a pioneer in the field of commercial aviation. He served on a naval ground crew in WWI, but returned to Pensacola to get his flying credentials. He served as an instructor and as a member of the scouting fleet there from 1920-1930. In 1930 he left the Navy to work for Pan Am Airlines, at a time when they only had 12 pilots, one of whom was Charles Lindbergh. While stationed in Miami he flew amphibious passenger planes to Central and South America. (See MSS 091-005 for a possible connection.) In 1937 he was transferred to San Francisco and flew Boeing clipper planes to Asia and the Pacific. During the early part of WWII, this experience came in handy as he flew military personnel into the war zone.