Grad Pioneers Again

The pilot on the first leg of the round-the-world flight of the Glob ester, the C-54 transport plane which inaugurated on September 28 the Army Air Transport command's weekly 151-hour global service, was a Dartmouth alumnus of the Class of 1937, Capt. John F. Ohlinger. Captain Ohlinger piloted the plane from Washington, D. C., to the Azores on the first one-route service flown around the world on a regular timetable basis.

Before being assigned as a pilot on the Army Air Transport Command's new 23,000-mile flight, Captain Ohlinger helped establish air routes across Africa and the Middle East and has flown regularly between the United States and India. He holds the Distinguished Flying Cross which was awarded to him by General George Marshall for carrying out successfully tooo-hours of pioneer flights as an Army Air Transport Command pilot over unmapped terrain in Africa and the Middle East "where landing facilities and navigational aids were practically nonexistent." In these flights he carried key personnel and materiel vital to the war effort.

At Dartmouth, Ohlinger was a trackman and a Phi Beta Kappa student.