Loading the Plane

  • user warning: Table 'mah45_andershalverson.semaphore' doesn't exist query: SELECT expire, value FROM semaphore WHERE name = 'menu_rebuild' in /home/mah45/public_html/includes/lock.inc on line 149.
  • user warning: Table 'mah45_andershalverson.semaphore' doesn't exist query: SELECT expire, value FROM semaphore WHERE name = 'menu_rebuild' in /home/mah45/public_html/includes/lock.inc on line 149.

The California Department of Fish and Game pioneered aerial fish planting in the years following World War II. In this photo, taken about 1950 in Bishop, CA, Dave Ward, Lee Talbot, Carrol Faist, and Jim McGregor prepare to load an WWII-surplus Beechcraft C-45 with fingerlings.