Juneau Remembers:

Juneau Remembers:. Sea and Sky: Juneau's Links to the World. , Will Rogers and Wiley Post. Wiley Post was a famed aviator who, in 1935, flew into Juneau with Will Rogers, a humorist much loved by the American public. The two friends were on a private adventure trip in Post's plane. After spending several days in Juneau, they continued northward. Days later, the world was stunned by the news that both men died when their plane crashed near Barrow., H.L. Wood, "the flying parson.” Wood was superintendent of the Alaska Mission of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. When his mission boat was commandeered for coastal patrol duty during World War II, Pastor Wood bought a floatplane and learned to fly to continue his work., Thomas Ace White, the young Juneau flight instructor everyone called "Tommy.” He lived up to his middle name in World War II when he became an ace fighter pilot., Amy Lou Blood (later Barney), the first woman to receive her pilot's license in Juneau. She became a noted aerial photographer of the Alaska landscape., Ray Renshaw, “the pilots' pilot,” who flew everything from bush planes to modern airliners. In 52 years of flying, he never crashed., Captions , Above, Will Rogers arriving in Juneau on Wiley Post's plane, a hybrid made up of an Orion fuselage and a Lockheed wing. Above right, Amy Lou Blood. Below right, Amy Lou Blood and Tommy White in Juneau. (Above, Juneau-Douglas City Museum Collection, above and below right, Amy Lou Barney Collection)