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About Dale Mabry
- Dale Mabry (March 22, 1891 – February 21, 1922) was an American World War I aviator. Mabry, a native of Tallahassee, Florida, was the son of former Florida Supreme Court Justice Milton H.
- Mabry and Ella Dale Bramlett.
- He went on to become an airship pilot and captain in the United States Army Air Service.
- Captain Mabry died piloting the Army airship Roma, a dirigible he was testing, when it crashed in Norfolk, Virginia on February 21, 1922.
- The event marked the greatest disaster in American aeronautics up to that time, resulting in 34 deaths.
- Mabry was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
- He was survived by a brother, G.
- E.
- Mabry, of Tampa, Florida. Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa, Florida is named for him.
- It was initially constructed to connect what was then MacDill Field, now MacDill Air Force Base, with then-Drew Field Municipal Airport, now Tampa International Airport.
- It is a major, highly commercialized roadway through Hillsborough County.
- Landmarks on this road include Hillsborough Community College, Raymond James Stadium, and George M.
- Steinbrenner Field.
- Also in Tampa, Dale Mabry Elementary school is named in his honor.
- A Tampa restaurant originally named Dale 1891 in his honor was remodeled and renamed during season 4 of Bar Rescue.Dale Mabry Municipal Airport in Tallahassee, Florida, that city's first airport, also bore his name.
- The original Tallahassee Airport location was on Dale Mabry Field, a World War II U.S.
- Army Air Corps, later U.S.
- Army Air Forces flight training facility.
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