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Got a Light?
| 题名： | Got a Light? |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Jerry Fraser |
| 摘要： | Airplanes proved their worth in World War I, but ocean crossings were still novel in May 1919, when the Navy's newest flying boats set out to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The leg to the Azores was more than 1,200 miles. To guide the airplanes at night the Navy deployed a string of destroyers that strung themselves out in a lighted picket line. Aboard one, the USS O'Brien, was a young lieutenant commander named Philip Van Horn Weems. Weems, an orphan from Tennessee, had been admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy despite having an eighth grade education. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Work Boat |
| 卷： | 79 |
| 期： | 6 |
| 页码： | 40-42 |
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