An Earlybird's Scrapbook
Early Experimental Aviators
Langley Field, VA. (1919-1920)
Book Two, Page Seventy Eight, Top
"Lt. Conley, U.S.N. fell in the York river off Yorktown, VA on May 28, 1919. These views are of the wrecked plane during the salvaging operations.
(Images six and seven of nine.)
(We don't think that the sailor who lost his boxer shorts diving to attach the winch hook expected to be photographed.)
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