Photo #: NH 77566
Aviator Eugene B. Ely
Is congratulated by an Army officer after his successful flights
to and from USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4), 18
January 1911. Photographed at Tanforan field, San Francisco,
California.
Note the ship's cap ribbon worn on Ely's arm, and his inner tube
life preserver.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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