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Bystanders Looking at the Wreckage of 'The American Legion' After It Had Crashed, 1927. Noel Guy Davis and Stanton Hall Wooster were two US Navy airmen who planned an attempt to make the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris in 1927. Both men were killed when their Keystone Pathfinder aeroplane 'American Legion' crashed in Virginia during a test flight. From "Time To Remember - Fast And Far in the Twenties", 1927 (Reel 3); a look at the obsession with speed and travel during the late 1920s.