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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | General William "Billy" Mitchell posing next to an airplane wearing flight gear. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A hydroplane built by the Wright Brothers being tested by the U.S. Navy on San Diego Bay. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Glenn Curtiss sold two hydroplanes (NS 1 & 2) to the U.S. Navy and continued to test them independently from their base also located on North Island. This ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Rodney Williams, a World War I pilot from Delafield, Wisconsin, posed wearing his U.S. Air Service uniform. With five enemy aircraft downed in July 1918, ... |
| Date: | 09 1908 |
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| Description: | Among the spectators present to watch Orville Wright's demonstration of the Wright Flyer at Fort Myer, Virginia, were Lt. Frank P. Lahm (left), one of the ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | General William "Billy" Mitchell in full dress uniform. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | General William "Billy" Mitchell in the cockpit of his airplane. |
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| Description: | Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker, who earned the title "Ace of Aces" for his 27 victories during World War I. In this photograph he is posed against a plane ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Jesse C. Brabazon, a pioneer aviator from Delavan, Wisconsin, in his uniform as a member of the Milwaukee Wing of the Civil Air Patrol during World War II. |
| Date: | 05 19 1919 |
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| Description: | The crew of NC-4 during their interim stop in the Azores: Left to right: Lt. Elmer Stone, Eugene Rhoades (machinists mate), Lt. Walter Hinton, Ensign H.C. ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Jacqueline Cochrane (directly under the propeller) with a group of women pilots in the British Air Transport Auxiliary. One of the leading race and test pi... |
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| Description: | A photograph of General James H. Doolittle in a B-29, inscribed to aviation publicist, Harry Bruno. Doolittle's illustrious career included air racing duri... |
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| Description: | Aviation publicist Harry Bruno flanked by two Air Force generals with Wisconsin ties who played a prominent role in shaping post-World War II air defense p... |
| Date: | 08 1917 |
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| Description: | A visiting French officer instructs novice American pilots at Camp Mineola on the conditions that they can expect to find at the front. |
| Date: | 05 1917 |
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| Description: | A ground school conducted by Princeton University for students who wished to enlist in the Army Air Service. During World War I most American aviators were... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Captain John B. Stetson, Jr., the officer in charge of flying instruction at the American Expeditionary Force, 2nd Aviation Instruction Center near Tours, ... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | The Fokker airplane in which Lt. Lester Maitland of Milwaukee and Lt. Albert Hegenberger made the first California to Hawaii trans-Pacific crossing. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Major Richard Ira Bong, medal of honor winner from Poplar, Wisconsin. Flying a P-38, Bong shot down more enemy aircraft than any other American... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Elvated view of war hero Richard Ira Bong (center, in flight jacket) on leave in Poplar, with friends, relatives, and admirers. The group is walking down a... |
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| Description: | The real flying nun, Sister Mary Aquinas Kinskey, O.S.F., in a B-52 simulator with Major Ralph M. Hanson. Sister Mary Aquinas was fulfilling her dream of f... |
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