Название: 75 Years of Marine Corps Aviation
Издательство: US Marine Corps
Страниц: 52
Формат: PDF
Размер: 15 Мб
Качество: Хорошее
Год: 1986
Язык: английский
On 22 May 1987, Marine Corps aviation will have commemorated its 75th anniversary. On this date in 1912 First Lieutenant Alfred A. Cunningham reported for duty at the new aviation camp in Annapolis.
On 1 August that year, after two hours and 40 minutes of instruction at Marblehead, Massachusetts, he soloed in a Curtiss seaplane, thus becoming the first Marine pilot (and the fifth naval aviator). A new Aviation Detachment in the Advance Base Force was activated on 27 December 1913. The detachment consisted of two officers, seven enlisted Marines, and two Navy flying boats.
When America entered World War I, Marine Corps aviation consisted of six officers, one warrant officer, and 43 enlisted Marines at Pensacola. The detachment split into the 1st Marine Aviation Squadron (land planes) and the 1st Marine Aeronautic Company (seaplanes) in October 1917. The latter unit sailed from Philadelphia on 9 January 1918 with 10 Curtiss R-6 seaplanes and 2 Curtiss N-9s for the Azores, where it flew antisubmarine patrols without ever sighting a U-boat. . .
