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P-77%u2014%u2014September 6, 1943%u2014%u2014Huntington%u2014%u2014Hosdreg Municipal Airport%u2014%u2014200 pieces cancelled.Envelope variation%u2014Signed by Roy Howell, Mayor of Huntington from 1943 to 1944, and 1950 to 1951. Backstamped with addressee%u2019s name and address.Enclosed letter on next page. Addressee, Dr. Joseph Frankenstein Ulman, was born in 1880, and was an active member of the American Airmail Society from the early 1930s until the late 1940s. He was mentioned in the Airpost Journal over 80 times during that period. Ulman was listed as a member of the Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum in its 1901 Annual Report. He was a 1903 graduate of the Medico-Chirurgical College, which later became part of the University of Philadelphia, where he became an instructor of Physiology. He maintained a private medical practice, and served as chief of the tuberculosis division at the Philadelphia General Hospital. Joseph died in 1961 at the age of 80.Dean Hammond Wakefield, who signed the letter on next page, was born on February 28, 1900 in Shelby, Illinois. He was a World War I veteran, and later a resident of Huntington, Indiana, where he died in 1979 at the age of 79. Wakefield served as a Captain and Commanding Officer in Huntington%u2019s Civil Air Patrol, Squadron, 523-5. He was hired as chief pilot and airport operator when the Hosdreg Airport was built by the Hosdreg Chemical Company, a manufacturer of Plas-Time modeling clay. The facility was later named Wakefield Airport in Dean%u2019s honor.