Text from back of photo: 'Setting a new record in transcontinental flying, Liet. James A. Doolittle, Army aviator, completed a flight the other day of 2275 miles from Jacksonville, Fla., to San Diego, Cal, in approximately 21 hours and 20 minutes,...
Text from back of image: "Five months unrelenting search through the mountains of California and Arizona for Col. Francis Marshall and Lieut. Charles Webber, ended when their wrecked airplane and the bodies of the two men were found in densely...
Text from back of image: "Five months unrelenting search through the mountains of California and Arizona for Col. Francis Marshall and Lieut. Charles Webber, ended when their wrecked airplane and the bodies of the two men were found in densely...
Text from back of image: "For the first time in history, the United States Battle Fleet was commanded from aerial flagship, when Admiral Samuel S. Robison flew the Admiral's flag from a Navy seaplane en route from San Diego to Los Angeles. This...
Text from back of image: "In San Diego Bay, California, eighteen 151 cubic inch class hydroplanes, hailing from near and far, will race for the national championship and the Elgin Trophy. This pix shows Miss Westchester - Atlantic Coast champ....
Text from back of image: "A two-day glider meet, held at Pacific Beach near San Diego recently brought thousands of interested spectators. W. H. Bowlus, San Diego's only entry captured the distance and endurance record for the 'soarer' and came in...
Text from back of image: "Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express. (This picture officially released by the War Department and permission is hereby granted for its reproduction. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, San Diego, California)"
Text from back of image: "This photo is unusual in that it shows all three types of light-than-air craft in the same view. It was taken, recently, at the Naval Air Station at San Diego."
Text from back of image: 'The forward march of the daredevil side of aviation seems to keep pace with the rapid strides of commercial and military flying. The latest thriller is a change from a speeding motorboat to an airplane via the rope ladder...
Text from back of image: 'Lieut. W.S. Garrett, U.S.N., was killed and his observer, Chief Rigger S.C. Funk, was burned seriously when the navy plane in which they were making a landing crashed and burned at Yuma, Ariz., on February 18th. The men...
Text from back of image: "Here they are, folks, 55 capable, distance-annihilating Juggernauts of the air, all lined up and ready for the general's double-o. This remarkable photo was taken at the army air field at North Island, near San Diego. Can...
Text from back of image: "Plans for sending 934 men, 166 officers and 68 planes to Rockwell Field, San Diego, and thereby establishing a big west coast aerial operations base are being considered by the war department, it is reported. The men in...
Text from back of image: "This wonderful little water bird, specially designed to be catapulted from a ship's deck, has many unusual features, such as a speed of 120 miles per hour with a 220 hp Laurence Radial Motor. She climbs 780 ft. in ten...
