My first time to fly was on a DC-4 in 1956 from LA to San Francisco. A few years later I flew on a converted C-54 from Naha, Okinawa to Manila with a stop in Taiwan. The airline, CAT, turned out to be a covert operation run by the CIA. This was taken at the Taipei airport. I am the klutzy little kid on the left.
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