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WIDE WORLD PHOTOS
NAVAL AIRCRAFT: On November 14, 1910, Eugene Ely foreshadowed an important element of our 1944 offensive in the Pacific by making the world’s first flight from the deck of a ship (upper)—the stationary U.S.S. Birmingham. Thirty-odd years later the Grumman Avenger, audacious grandchild of the plane Ely flew, hurls itself like a rocket from a modern flat-top traveling at high speed (lower).
