Text from back of image: "Shown above is the 'Lieutenant Erwin Francis Conway, U.S. Navy Memorial Trophy," which will be presented to Lt. A.K. Morehouse, USN, representing the Miami, FL, Naval Reserve Aviataion base. The Miami base, has the highest...
In 1866, a wooden figurehead was sent to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD that was salvaged from a ship sunk in the Civil War (to prevent it getting into Confederate hands) from the line 'Delaware.' It was called various names before its...
Text from back of image: "The ZMC-2, America's first all-metal dirigible airship landed at Grosse Ile, Airport Detroit (Mich.) last night after its initial flight test. The big metal ship, piloted by Captain William C. Kepner, one of the country's...
Text from back of image: 'Capt. Emory S. Land has just been appointed Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics. He will relieve Commander John Rodgers, hero of the San Francisco-Hawaiian flight, who has been ordered to sea duty at his own...
Text on back 'A day at Pensacola Air Station. In August, 35 aviation cadets of the Naval Reserve will join the U.S. fleet and take their place with naval aviators of the regular service in the aircraft squadrons. New corps of the Navy to complete...
Naval Air Transport Service-Snowcapped peaks near Dutch Harbor, Alaska provide an impressive background for this NATS plane en route to the Aleutian front. Flying under the aegis of the Naval Air Transport Service, giant R4D planes are today...
There are 887 armor piercing 20 mm cannon shells visible in this picture, hardly more than one third the completely load for the three pods (under Navy A4 jet) of the HIPEG gun system developed by Hughes Tool Company's Aircraft Division, Culver...
Collection guide for Samuel Francis Du Pont papers. Samuel Francis Du Pont (1803-1865) was a career naval
officer who commanded the South Atlantic Squadron for the Union during the Civil War. His papers include personal and naval correspondence...
Text from back of image: 'Just a small proportion of Honolulu residents who turned out to greet gallant naval flyers when they landed in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, after a epochal flight from San Francisco Bay. Comm. McGinnis is seen talking over a...
Text from back of image: 'At the end of their record flight from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor, Big Hawaii Naval Base, the 30 officers and enlisted men, comprising the crews of the six Navy planes that made the flight, were bedecked with leis,...
Text on back 'Colonel Samuel C. Rojas and Lieutenants Paul Azcarate and Rodolfo Torres, the three Mexican fliers who are receiving special instruction at the Naval Air Station, Anacostia, Washington, D.C., in piloting fighting planes, are being...
