October 30, 1941 Procurement of Stinson Model 76 recommended. On October 30, 1941 the Experimental Engineering Section at Wright Field published its report on the new Stinson Model 76 airplane that had been test flown during August and September by observation squadrons located at Forts Sill, Knox, Bliss, and Benning. Their confidential report XPM-M-50-604 concluded…
Month: October 2020
L-5 History Blog #12
October 25th, 1944 The first Kamikaze attack of WWII. A somber subject for a somber evening here in Juneau, Alaska as I watch an early season light snow develop into a blizzard. Lately, I’ve been researching Marine Corps VMO (Observation Squadron) history and was reminded that two OY-1’s were lost in a Kamikaze attack that sank…