RESOURCES

"Fish" Hassell Collection of Lester Bishop Courtesy of David Balanky

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Fish Hassell", using the Google search engine, (8-23-08), you will find about 136 links, most of which simply refer to his book. If you include the qualifier "-Viking" in the search field, the number of links drops to 82. Perhaps the most helpful are the following.

 

Bert R.J. ‘Fish Hassell and Parker D. Shorty Cramer: Pilots of a Remarkable Rockford-to-Stockholm Flight      This superb article on the HISTORYNET.COM website offers a very extensive and interesting account of his life and career. It covers in detail the attempt to fly from Rockford to Stockholm.      "It was written by Gail S. Ravitts and originally published in the September 2000 issue of Aviation History. For more great articles subscribe to Aviation History magazine today!"

 

Stockholm-Chicago for 75 years ago! ANDERS HASSELBOHM, den 8 oktober 2004      This article on the FLYGTORGET website, in Swedish, revues the story of Fish and Shorty and includes several unique photographs. You can read the machine-translated version by clicking on the title above.      If you are lucky enough to be able to read Swedish, you can access the original article on: Stockholm-Chicago för 75 år sedan!

 

RECOMMENDED READING

Fish Hassell, a Viking with wings: An autobiography   Fish Hassell   Product Details Paper: 219 pages Used Prices: from $25.00 Publisher: Maverick Publications (1987) ISBN-10: 0892881704 ISBN-13: 978-0892881703

 

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