Seaplane in the Battery page-number Read tales from the front

Read tales from the front lines of the Civil War

Italy and France

" on February 28

Navy in October 1924 and later renamed the USS Los Angeles ZR-3 (Zeppelin Rigid number 3)

African-American troops often had to fight for respect in the military and received it

Seaplane in the Battery page-number Read tales from the frontCaptain Wolfgang Von Gronau of Germany and three companions set their seaplane down at the Battery in New York after blazing a 4,670 mile trail across the Atlantic by way of the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Nova Scotia, spending 47 hours in the air. Von Gronau's 4,670 mile flight proved that airplanes were viable for traveling long distances. He later circumnavigated the globe in his Dornier Wal seaplane, starting and ending in Sylt, Germany.