Eugene Ely's plane plunges toward the water, but he pulls up to make naval aviation history.
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A wartime broadcast that frames naval aviation as a growing force at sea.
The Navy's air arm comes across as something still fighting for its own place at sea. The episode traces the early carrier-era gains and shows naval aviation moving from experiment to accepted part of future war at sea, with period narration that gives the whole thing a stiff,…
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Hear naval aviation win its argument on wartime radio.
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