Mercy Pilot

Joe Crosson, a brave and skilled pilot, became a national hero between the world wars flying mercy missions in the North. He pioneered air routes throughout Alaska and foresaw the future of commercial aviation. Above all else, he loved to fly. In 1929, Crosson generated newspaper headlines worldwide flying a long, dangerous and unprecedented search in the Siberian winter darkness for a lost pilot and friend,Carl Ben Eielson. Crosson made a bitterly cold winter flight in an open-cockpit carrying