it. For a little while on Monday afternoon through his deputy, Louis Turro, the ..." Daily News, Frederick, Maryland, December 3, 1936; "Acosta faces rebels" The New York Times, New York City, February 20, 1937; "Aviator Held in Nassau in Failure to Post Bail on Wife's Charge. Bert Acosta, who recently faced a Federal inquiry for enlisting in the Spanish Loyalist air force, was remanded to the Nassau County jail here this afternoon pending the posting of a $500 bond to insure his appearance in Children's Court next Friday morning." The New York Times, New York City, December 17, 1945; "Bert Acosta in Hospital" The New York Times, New York City, August 12, 1952; "Bert Acosta in Hospital" New Bridgeport Telegram, Bridgeport, Connecticut, September 2, 1954, Obituary Time, July 11, 1927, "Four men in a fog" Time, February 6, 1928, "Goal" Time, September 28, 1936, "Transatlantic Tradition", Pilot crews that hate each other Time, March 25, 1957, "End of the Adventure", Byrd Obituary External links Bert Acosta at Corbis Bert Acosta bibliography Spanish Civil War Participants Bert Acosta at Aerofiles Air Mail Pioneers: Bert Acosta 1895 births 1954 deaths People from San Diego National Aviation Hall of Fame inductees Aviators from California Spanish Civil War pilots Yankee Squadron 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Burials at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery Flight endurance record holders American aviation record holders Tuberculosis deaths in Colorado