Navy balloon A-5598

[1][2] The balloon departed Rockaway Naval Air Station (Queens, New York) on December 13, 1920, and went missing the following day.

[4] The balloon was manned by three aeronauts, U.S. Navy Lieutenants Louis A. Kloor, Jr. (mission commander); Stephen A. Farrell (pilot);[5][6][7] and Walter Hinton (ground observer).

[8] After a flight of over 25 hours the group,[9] which had narrowly avoiding coming down in the James Bay, was stranded in the wilderness and wandered for four days before they came upon a Cree Indian fur trader.

[10] The trio recovered at Moose Factory, and later were brought to the nearest town on a railway line, Mattice (Ontario) on January 11.

[5] Hinton and Kloor had written letters home which their families sold to newspapers describing the flight, which prompted the Navy to start enforcing rarely used censorship rules.