The Scrapbooks of Willis B. Haviland

An Earlybird's Scrapbook

USNAS Porto Corsini (1918)

Book Two, Page Fifteen, Left

"Three views of Macchi (M.5) single seater combat planes"

Top - George Ludlow's "Mutt 2nd."
For a close-up of the emblem, please click here.

Bottom - No caption
Note: This image did appear in the Christmas, 1918 edition of The Leading Edge with the caption - Launching an "M 5." The doubting moment when the crew wonder whether it will have to handle this plane any more.



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