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Kent Weekly (SS/DSV) (DBF), EMCS
to remember
Read, Albert Cushing (Putty)(C.O. NC-4) (DSM 1919), RADM USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town Lyme, NH
Last Address Miami, Fl
Date of Passing Oct 10, 1967
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Rear Admiral Read was the Commanding Officer of NC-4. NC-4 was a Navy Curtiss flying boat, and was the first airplane to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1919.
