EAA’s Attic — Clyde Lee Flight to Oslo Commemorative Postcard and Photo

Printed in 1932, this postcard shows the proposed route that Oshkosh native Clyde Lee planned to take from the United States to Norway. Lee campaigned for his red 1928 Stinson to be painted with the OshKosh B’gosh logo, in hopes that the company from his hometown would sponsor the historic flight. After it turned him down, residents of Montpelier and Barre, Vermont, offered much-needed financial backing to Lee and his team. With his Stinson renamed Green Mountain Boy, Lee and his relief pilot, John Bochkon, took off from Barre, Vermont, on August 23, 1932, and were last seen leaving Newfoundland the next day. Lee and Bochkon vanished somewhere over the North Atlantic and were never seen again.