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Patriots Point's Grumman Wildcat F4F-3A
Posted: Jul 06, 2011Oh Mother, dear Mother, take down that blue star; Replace it with one that is Gold. Your son is a Wildcat pilot, He’ll never be thirty years old. (WW 2 […]
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Centennial of Naval Aviation: First Fleet Use Of The Aircraft Carrier
Posted: Mar 02, 2011Beginning on 02 March 1925, the United States Navy made the first tactical use of naval air power with the operations of the USS Langley, CV-1, during Fleet Problem V. […]
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First Airship To Land On Aircraft Carrier, 1928!
Posted: Jan 27, 2011ZR-3, USS Los Angeles, was a zeppelin built in Germany for the United States Navy as part of a reparations payment. She was our longest-serving airship from 1924-1939. Her landing […]