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Wrong-Way Corrigan and the ubiquitous Floyd Bennett

Feb5

…Corrigan insisted that in the dark, he couldn’t tell that he’d been following the wrong end of the compass needle. By the time the sun had come up, it was too late for him to turn back…

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