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Russell Purchase, 85, instructor in the Air Transport Command in the 1940s and a pioneering corporate pilot after the end of World War II, died March 20 in Saginaw, Mich. Having earned his private pilot's license in 1936, he went on to start a flight-training program for the Civilian Pilot Training...
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