DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 77555
Eugene B. Ely
On board USS Roe (Destroyer # 24) on 14 November 1910,
shortly after his flight off the deck of USS Birmingham
(Scout Cruiser # 2). This was the first airplane takeoff from
a warship.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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