Wartime US Pilot Adolf Schwimmer organizes “Schwimmer Air Freight Company” out of Burbank, CA…buys and overhauls mothballed US military transport planes…newly–destined to form the embryonic Israeli Air Command–transports, trainers, fighters and light bombers.
Hank Greenspun of L.A. organized staging–areas for the planes in Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic awaiting the imminent end of the British Mandate in Palestine.
Both Schwimmer and Greenspun supported and nurtured by a grapevine stretching across the Americas.