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First Naval Aircraft Hit By Enemy Gunfire, 1914
Posted: May 06, 2011There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. Winston Churchill South Carolinian and naval aviator Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Patrick N. L. Bellinger flew an AH-3 hydroaeroplane […]
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First Combat Flight 1914
Posted: Apr 25, 2011A Navy AB-3 piloted by LTJG Patrick Bellinger from the USS Mississippi‘s aviation unit at Veracruz, Mexico, on this date in 1914, conducted military reconnaissance of Veracruz and a preliminary […]