Also has a memorial marker in family plot at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN. Service: U.S. Navy, Service ID: 0-062441.
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City Aviator is Missing on Alaska Trip.
A Minneapolis flier, Lt. Comm. Jerome H. Sparboe, 38, was among 14 officers and enlisted men aboard a navy plane which the navy Tuesday night reported missing on a flight in Alaska.
The Navy gave his address at 240 Meadowbrook road Hopkins, which is the residence of his brother, A.B. Sparboe, and his mother, Mrs. Gertrude M. Sparboe.
ROUTINE FLIGHT: Naval aircraft are searching for the missing plane, which failed to reach White Horse, Alaska, from Kodiak, where it had begun a routine flight to Seattle.
The missing plane was one of three which started out on the trip and encountered such bad weather they were forced to fly by instrument soon after taking off, the navy said. The other two ships reached White Horse safely.
NORTHWEST PILOT: Sparboe, a native of Webster City, Iowa, was graduated from University of Minnesota in 1928. That fall, he entered naval flight training at Pensacola Fla., air base and was commissioned a reserve lieutenant the next spring.
He then became a pilot for Northwest Airlines here, pioneering the line's Duluth-Minneapolis line. He later flew on Minneapolis-Chicago runs.
The naval reserve called him to active duty last January.
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City Aviator is Missing on Alaska Trip.
A Minneapolis flier, Lt. Comm. Jerome H. Sparboe, 38, was among 14 officers and enlisted men aboard a navy plane which the navy Tuesday night reported missing on a flight in Alaska.
The Navy gave his address at 240 Meadowbrook road Hopkins, which is the residence of his brother, A.B. Sparboe, and his mother, Mrs. Gertrude M. Sparboe.
ROUTINE FLIGHT: Naval aircraft are searching for the missing plane, which failed to reach White Horse, Alaska, from Kodiak, where it had begun a routine flight to Seattle.
The missing plane was one of three which started out on the trip and encountered such bad weather they were forced to fly by instrument soon after taking off, the navy said. The other two ships reached White Horse safely.
NORTHWEST PILOT: Sparboe, a native of Webster City, Iowa, was graduated from University of Minnesota in 1928. That fall, he entered naval flight training at Pensacola Fla., air base and was commissioned a reserve lieutenant the next spring.
He then became a pilot for Northwest Airlines here, pioneering the line's Duluth-Minneapolis line. He later flew on Minneapolis-Chicago runs.
The naval reserve called him to active duty last January.
Also has a memorial marker in family plot at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN. Service: U.S. Navy, Service ID: 0-062441.
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City Aviator is Missing on Alaska Trip.
A Minneapolis flier, Lt. Comm. Jerome H. Sparboe, 38, was among 14 officers and enlisted men aboard a navy plane which the navy Tuesday night reported missing on a flight in Alaska.
The Navy gave his address at 240 Meadowbrook road Hopkins, which is the residence of his brother, A.B. Sparboe, and his mother, Mrs. Gertrude M. Sparboe.
ROUTINE FLIGHT: Naval aircraft are searching for the missing plane, which failed to reach White Horse, Alaska, from Kodiak, where it had begun a routine flight to Seattle.
The missing plane was one of three which started out on the trip and encountered such bad weather they were forced to fly by instrument soon after taking off, the navy said. The other two ships reached White Horse safely.
NORTHWEST PILOT: Sparboe, a native of Webster City, Iowa, was graduated from University of Minnesota in 1928. That fall, he entered naval flight training at Pensacola Fla., air base and was commissioned a reserve lieutenant the next spring.
He then became a pilot for Northwest Airlines here, pioneering the line's Duluth-Minneapolis line. He later flew on Minneapolis-Chicago runs.
The naval reserve called him to active duty last January.
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City Aviator is Missing on Alaska Trip.
A Minneapolis flier, Lt. Comm. Jerome H. Sparboe, 38, was among 14 officers and enlisted men aboard a navy plane which the navy Tuesday night reported missing on a flight in Alaska.
The Navy gave his address at 240 Meadowbrook road Hopkins, which is the residence of his brother, A.B. Sparboe, and his mother, Mrs. Gertrude M. Sparboe.
ROUTINE FLIGHT: Naval aircraft are searching for the missing plane, which failed to reach White Horse, Alaska, from Kodiak, where it had begun a routine flight to Seattle.
The missing plane was one of three which started out on the trip and encountered such bad weather they were forced to fly by instrument soon after taking off, the navy said. The other two ships reached White Horse safely.
NORTHWEST PILOT: Sparboe, a native of Webster City, Iowa, was graduated from University of Minnesota in 1928. That fall, he entered naval flight training at Pensacola Fla., air base and was commissioned a reserve lieutenant the next spring.
He then became a pilot for Northwest Airlines here, pioneering the line's Duluth-Minneapolis line. He later flew on Minneapolis-Chicago runs.
The naval reserve called him to active duty last January.
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