It concludes with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the outbreak of WWII.

It begins with events originating in WWI in a remote area of the former Austro-Hungarian EmpireвЂ™s Galicia Province. It focuses on the development and operations of airmail services on the Polish territories throughout 25 years of turbulent European history during the 20th century. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and serves as a Vice-Chair, Department of Surgery, and Director, Dumont-UCLA Transplantation Research Laboratories Terasaki Endowed Chair in Surgery, David Geff en School of Medicine at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. Kupiec-Weglinski, M.D., Ph.D., originally from Warsaw, Poland. The first major national airlines started to form that year with Dutch KLM, followed by Germany's Lufthansa in 1926 and American Pan Am in 1927.The History of Airmail in Poland and Its Contribution to Airmail Services of Europe (1914-1939)Д«y Jerzy W. The Aeropostale saga was just the beginning of a long list of airborne feats around the world between the two World Wars.ДЄmong them was the first non-stop transatlantic flight by British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown in 1919. Several decades later his correspondence with his family and friends was published under the title 'Defricheur du ciel' (Pioneer of the sky). In 1933 its assets were bought by a group of aviation companies which would later become Air France. 'What I did, no idiot would ever have done,' he told Saint-Exupery when they met several days later.ДЄeropostale was by this time financially strapped. He was taken in by a villager after walking for several days in the snow. In June 1930 his Potez 25 made an emergency landing in the mountains. This Junkers 52 postal aircraft, registered F-BAKK, flew the first night postal service in November 1946 In May 1930 Jean Mermoz carried out the first commercial air crossing across the south Atlantic, between Saint-Louis in Senegal and Natal in Brazil with a Late 28 seaplane.ДЄeropostale's Henri Guillaumet regularly crossed the dangerous Andes Mountains, delivering mail between Buenos Aires and Santiago in Chile. In 1927 Latecoere sold the company to French industrialist Marcel Bouilloux-Lafont, who was based in Latin America, where he introduced the service and renamed the company Aeropostale. It was there, between the Atlantic Ocean and the ochre dunes of the Sahara, that he found the setting for his future work 'Le Petit Prince' (The Little Prince), which tells of a pilot whose plane crashes in the Sahara, where he meets a young boy. He became a legend when, following engine failure, he was taken hostage by Moors who freed him after receiving a ransom several days later.ДЄnother legend of international postal aviation was French author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who wrote his first novel 'Courrier sud' (Southern Mail) when he was working in the late 1920s at the Cape Juby airfield in the Spanish zone of South Morocco. In 1926 the company assigned Jean Mermoz to the Casablanca-Dakar airmail link. This meant two planes for that route, one to provide assistance to the other in the case of a forced landing. Civilian airmail was born.ДЄviators Jean Dabry (L), Leopold Gimie (R) and Jean Mermoz flew the first commercial crossing of the South Atlantic in May 1930

The plane made the trip in two hours and 20 minutes with its sack of letters and parcels. When his Salmson biplane set out for Barcelona on Christmas Day in 1918, Latecoere sat behind the pilot, Rene Cornemont, according to the book 'Aeropostale' (2010). 'There is only one thing left for us to do, that is to carry it out.' Our idea is unachievable,' Latecoere said. 'I've redone all the calculations, they confirm the opinion of specialists. It seemed sheer madness in an era when pilots navigated by sight, without sophisticated onboard instruments, and did not even have sealed cockpits, their heads open to the elements. If it were to work, he would have to build more efficient planes at his Toulouse factory.

The plan for a regular airmail service was dreamt up in the last months of World War I by visionary captain of industry, Pierre-Georges Latecoere. It was the beginning of an adventure which would soon see pioneering pilots from the company, best known as Aeropostale, delivering letters to Morocco, Senegal in Africa and later to Latin America.

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