{"id":346,"date":"2021-09-11T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2025-04-24T19:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:17:18","slug":"upcoming-mphs-zoom-presentation-september-11-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/11\/upcoming-mphs-zoom-presentation-september-11-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS Zoom Presentation, September 11, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We enjoyed a special Zoom presentation by Robert Toombs on September 11, 2021. At least 18 people joined this MPHS Zoom session, many from outside the U. S. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert&#8217;s presentation slides are available at: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/militaryphs.org\/presentations\/ferry_command\/ferry_command.pdf\">Ferry Command Presentation as a PDF File<\/a>&nbsp;(21 megabytes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br>The original announcement text is available at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/militaryphs.org\/presentations\/zoom_seminars\/ferry_command.pdf\">http:\/\/militaryphs.org\/presentations\/zoom_seminars\/ferry_command.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The description of this seminar follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Military Postal History Society is pleased to present another Zoom presentation by long time member Robert (Bob) Toombs on Ferry Command Dorval WWII. \u00a0Bob will present on little know aspects of airmail delivery systems, including trans-oceanic, associated with the &#8220;Ferry Command&#8221;. \u00a0In 1940, American WWI RAF pilot Clayton Knight recruited 44 bush pilots for the start-up of the RAF Ferry Command Dorval. \u00a0A joint committee comprised of 3 Americans and 3 Brits coordinated task-sharing of aircrew, meteorology, air traffic control, mails and more. Bob brings useful understandings to some very unique airmail rates that were associated with Ferry Command mail delivery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We enjoyed a special Zoom presentation by Robert Toombs on September 11, 2021. At least 18 people joined this MPHS Zoom session, many from outside the U. S. Robert&#8217;s presentation slides are available at: Ferry Command Presentation as a PDF File&nbsp;(21 megabytes) The original announcement text is available at: http:\/\/militaryphs.org\/presentations\/zoom_seminars\/ferry_command.pdf The description of this seminar &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/11\/upcoming-mphs-zoom-presentation-september-11-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read the full post &rarr;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;MPHS Zoom Presentation, September 11, 2021&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[55,31,57,54,19,8,56,18,30,52],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-ferry-command","tag-presentation","tag-raf","tag-robert-koombs","tag-second-world-war","tag-society","tag-ww2","tag-wwii","tag-zoom","tag-zoom-presentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryphs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}