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    FIRST U.S. AIRMAIL FLIGHT COMMEMORATED

    Sep 04, 2018 1 minute
    Jon Guttman

    May 15 marked the centennial of the first U.S. government–sponsored airmail flight, when Army airmen flew a Curtiss JN-4H from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia and New York City. (The Army transferred responsibility

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