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- Commemorative Postage Stamp for the 50th Anniversary of the 1928 "Bremen" Transatlantic Flight - West Germany's postal service issued this commemorative postage stamp in 1979 to mark the 50th anniversary of the transatlantic flight of the <em>Bremen</em>. Crewed by Germans Hermann Kohl and Ehrenfried Guenther von Huenefeld, and Irishman James Fitzmaurice, the <em>Bremen</em>'s flight was the first east-to-west crossing, made against prevailing westerly winds.
- 1928
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Commemorative Postage Stamp for the 50th Anniversary of the 1928 "Bremen" Transatlantic Flight
West Germany's postal service issued this commemorative postage stamp in 1979 to mark the 50th anniversary of the transatlantic flight of the Bremen. Crewed by Germans Hermann Kohl and Ehrenfried Guenther von Huenefeld, and Irishman James Fitzmaurice, the Bremen's flight was the first east-to-west crossing, made against prevailing westerly winds.