Ralph Burwell Virden with a Boeing Model 40. As a U.S. air Mail pilot, Virden is armed with a caliber .45 M1911 Colt Semi-automatic pistol. (San Diego Air and Space Museum Archices, Catalog #: AL6_T Lee_00086)
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