The rear gunner of the Martin bombers are also protected by Plexiglas enclosures which can be revolved mechanically to train multiple machine guns at planes attacking from the rear. Resembling the dome of an astronomical observatory the enclosure...
Caption on reverse: "Statue of Rear Admiral S. F. Du Pont when it stood in Du Pont Circle, Washington, D.C. - looking north, up Connecticut Avenue." The statue was designed by sculptor Launt Thompson and dedicated on 20 December 1884. Members of...
Designed for a sustained cruising speed of 100 miles per hour, the new rear engine Torpedo has the rakish lines of a fast plane combined with light weight and safety features developed in champions that wont 14 out of 16 events at the Indianapolis...
Written on back of image: "Front Row, left to right: Peter Demers, Timothy Horan, John Porter, William Brown, Arthur Wenhold, George White, Wm. ("Buff") Steptoe, Mason E. Turner, John Bancroft, Jr., ------- (Speaker), W. Ralph MacIntyre, John A....
Text from back of image: "The U.S. Navy is making plans to carry on the work of Rear Admiral Robert Peary, U.S. Navy, discoverer of the North Pole, with an air expedition to the North Pole this coming summer. The famous discoverer was one of the...
Black and white photograph of President Dwight D. Eisenhower at a ribbon cutting ceremony at La Quinta Country Club. Pictured are (left to right): Col. Courtney S. Turner, Dick Goeckner (La Quinta Pro), President Eisenhower, Mrs. Edward J. Crowley,...
Freight car runs wild, leaps on auto- One of eleven freight cars that ran wild on a railroad siding near Cincinnati tore through a concrete ramp, which lifted it ten feet into the air and fell on a Plymouth automobile parked near the tracks. The...
Capitol Square from Richmond Hotel-The State Capitol building at Richmond, Virginia with the Washington Monument in the foreground and the Governor’s Mansion at the extreme left and rear of picture.
Santa Monica CA- A place of honor in democracys hall of fame foes to this type of Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber after the historic battle of the Coral Sea. In a special message to the employees of Douglas Aircraft Company, Rear Admiral John H....
