473-220<br /> Frau Glaeser-Koehl, widow of Capt. K&ouml;hl, at Casement Aerodrome unveiling a plaque to commemorate the flight of the Bremen on April 12th 1928. 12/4/73<br /> The first east-west non-stop transatlantic flight, in April 1928, flew from Baldonnel, Ireland to Greenly Island, Canada, in a Junkers W 33 monoplane, the &quot;Bremen&quot;. The crew of the Bremen were Capt. Herman K&ouml;hl, Col. James Fitzmaurice and Baron Gunther Von H&uuml;nefeld.<br /> (Part of the Independent Newspapers Ireland/NLI Collection)
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