At the Last Frozen Minute

Lee Stahelis life as a Pilot is comprised of many adventurous episodes. Most of the ones written here in his book begin with WW11, while he was in the Navy, flying PBYs in the battle against the Japanese in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. They continue when he joins the Navy Reserves, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic survey, Arctic Pacific Airlines, Alaska Freight Lines, Western Electric, and General Petroleum. He flew for all of these, through the remote Bush Country of Alaska. He spent many years as a Commercial Pilot flying for Wien Airlines in Alaska, and was an instrumental part of everything he did, everywhere he went. His position as a Pilot made him invaluable to the U.S. and Alaska, and to the Eskimo people. His book reflects the close relationship he had with the Eskimo people, and all through those long, severely cold winters, they took care of one another. His strong and honest character follows him everywhere in this book. He later started his own Air Service out of Kiana, Alaska, where he lived with his family of six children until they were grown. Lee flew airplanes for 60 years, before he retired from Wien Alaska Airlines in 1996.