Detroit Greets Bremen Fliers and Junkers W33

Detroit greets Bremen fliers, Baron Gunther von Huenfeld, Major James Fitzmaurice and Captain Hermann Koehl arrived at the Ford Airport. The fliers are introduced to Detroiters at city hall. They also visit Olympia where they are greeted by school children. With them is German engineer and businessman Hugo Junkers who’d traveled to the United States. His purpose was two-fold: first, he wanted to greet the aviators who had just made the first successful east-west transatlantic flight in the “Bremen,” and,