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NH 77566 Aviator Eugene B. Ely

Photo #: NH 77566 Aviator Eugene B. Ely
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Title: Aviator Eugene B. Ely
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Description: Is congratulated by an Army officer after his successful flights to and from USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4), 18 January 1911. Photographed at Tanforan field, San Francisco, California. Note the ship's cap ribbon worn on Ely's arm, and his inner tube life preserver. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 77566
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