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After a nonstop crossing to the east, Merrill barely makes it back crossing the Atlantic a second time, after his co-pilot Harry Richman jettisons 500 gallons of fuel during a storm. “Lady Peace” came to grief on a bog at Musgrave Harbor, Newfoundland. (Virginia Aviation Museum)