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A dive-bombing Jenny??

by Robert Knaack on March 16, 2020 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

In researching the origins of US Navy/Marine dive bombing, I ran across this little gem of a story: In early 1919, a United States Marine Corps (USMC) JN-4 was credited with executing a "dive bombing" attack during the United [...]

Jenny I got your number

by Robert Knaack on December 8, 2019 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

In doing research on the history of dive-bombing, I discovered that the venerable old Curtiss JN-4 actually did service in combat zones, specifically with the US Marines in Haiti around 1920. I was taken by the camoflage scheme and [...]