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Lowell Yerex (24 July 1895 – 1968) was born in New Zealand, and attended Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, United States. He graduated from Valparaiso University in 1916. He volunteered for the British Royal Flying Corps in 1917, was shot down over France and spent four months in a German prisoner-of-war camp.
Nov 5, 2020 · As a Royal Air Force pilot in World War One, the tall, rugged New Zealander fell into German hands but made a daring escape from his captors. As a mercenary pilot, he lost an eye in a Central American revolution.
Lowell Yerex, nació el 24 de julio de 1895 en Wellington, Nueva Zelanda, en Oceanía; falleció en el año de 1968, en la ciudad de Buenos Aires, capital de la República Argentina.
Those favoring competition found a champion in Lowell Yerex, a New Zealand entrepreneur with a thriving Central American airline. However, his nominal British citizenship aroused concerns in an Anglophobic U.S. government, and thus it never accepted him as an option.
Lowell Yerex had but $25 to his name when he founded TACA Airways. He built his Latin American airline into the world’s largest cargo carrier.…
Lowell Yerex was a legendary New Zealand-born entrepreneur who established an airline empire in the Caribbean Basin during the 1930s and 1940s. Yerex sought to make his enterprises into a great international airline. This ambition entangled him in the Anglo-American aviation rivalry of the period.
Aviator of Fortune: Lowell Yerex and the Anglo–American Commercial Rivalry, 1931–1946. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xii + 264 pp. ISBN 1-58544-500-2, $45.00 (cloth). Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2015
