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.