1914 Starr Aviation

Kevin Starr Embattled Dreams California in War and Peace 1940-1950, Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, 2002, 386 pp., 2002, 1914

     [p. 132] . . . Four years later, on the verge of the outbreak of the war in Europe, at an air meet held in April 1914 at the Los Angeles County Fair Grounds, Glenn Martin dropped mock explosives on ground positions held by the California National Guard in a pioneering demonstration of the use of airplanes against troops. At the same event, Martin took his aircraft to an altitude of 14,200 feet-1,625 feet higher than the previous record- and a Miss Tiny Broadwick made a pioneering parachute drop from 1,500 feet. [p. 133] That July, less than a month before the war broke out in Europe, Congress authorized the first Aviation Section within the Army Signal Corps . . . allowing each branch of the military to establish their own aviation section . . .

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