Captain Gordon, 'Flying Torah,' Bangor, 1945

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Captain Harold H. Gordon, Jewish chaplain for the North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, reads from the hand-written Torah, which was created by carefully sewing sheets together to form a scroll.

Gordon took the Torah, on loan from the Beth Israel Synagogue in Bangor, on his rounds in 1945. In a circuit that covered bases as disparate as Reykjavik and Bermuda, Gordon and the Torah soon racked up more than 75,000 miles.

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Title: Captain Gordon, 'Flying Torah,' Bangor, 1945
Creator: U.S. Army Signal Section, Dow Field
Creation Date: 1945
Subject Date: 1945
Town: Bangor
County: Penobscot
State: ME
Media: photograph
Dimensions (cm): 10.5 x 12.5
Collection: Dow Field Photo Album
Object Type: Image

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(207) 947-8336
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