SPREADING the WORD

In expanding its overseas missionary programme during the late 1940s, the Assemblies of God USA recognised the value of air transport. A C-46 Commando and a B-17 Flying Fortress became its aerial Ambassadors ASSEMBLIES OF GOD Missionaries about to leave for India aboard C-46D Commando NC5925V Ambassador on 15 February 1949. The children in the doorway are Melvin and Evelyn Snyder; Mattie Personeus is on the top step with a briefcase, followed by Mabel and Emery Snyder, an unidentified woman,