Do you know who the American was in 1919? I wonder why so few attempts by anyone from 1919 to 1927
I guess the group of 4 including Byrd near 1927 was signficant ,but they had 4 guys in a a trimotor. They were trying to find Paris nonstop from New York and went in at Ver-Su-Mer, France. That was also a D-day battlefield and the musuem there is run by a nice guy named John Pierre.
He took me down to the airstrip which was used by people like IKE and other from Britain and the allies. It is long overgrown with corn and plants. I very small memorial and they go back there annually.