From left to right are: Bertrand Blanchard Acosta (1895-1954), Gordon Berry (1898–?), and Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) returning form the Spanish Civil War in 1937 at Washington National Airport on an Eastern Airlines flight.

This image appeared in the Washington Post on January 20, 1937.

The original caption reads: "U.S. War Fliers Here to Explain. Back from flying war planes for the Loyalist Forces in Spain, Bert Acosta, Gordon berry and Eddie Schneider, left to right, landed at Washington Airport yesterday for conferences at the War and State Departments, where their adventures, exciting as they may have been, are looked upon as breaches of U.S. neutrality."

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) in an autographed image dated June 28, 1931. The sign on his Cessna is for Richfield Aviation Gasoline.

Catalog #: 02-S-00201
Last Name: Schneider
First Name: Eddie
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
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Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) image from 1940 restored

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) image from 1940 restored by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) on February 1, 2011. I took the original 1.5 MB jpg scan and converted it into a png file which was now 3 MB. I imported it into GIMP and desaturated the image to remove the sepia tone and get it into black and white. I saved that image and imported it into Picnik and used the auto-fix function which optimizes the contrast and brightness. I then used Picnik to re-add in a sepia tone so it matches the original scan. The result is a much cleaner image and it is 1.6 MB.

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Congressional inquiry of November 7, 1941; page 1 of 11

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Congressional inquiry of November 7, 1941; page 1 of 11

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Congressional inquiry of November 7, 1941; page 2 of 11

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Congressional inquiry of November 7, 1941; page 2 of 11

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Congressional inquiry of November 7, 1941; page 3 of 11

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Congressional inquiry of November 7, 1941; page 3 of 11

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Congressional inquiry of November 7, 1941; page 4 of 11

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Congressional inquiry of November 7, 1941; page 4 of 11