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AIRMAIL CREATES AN INDUSTRY: Regularly Schedule Service

Lieutenant Stephen Boyle in his Curtiss JN-4H "Jenny" airplane on the Washington D.C. polo grounds gets ready for takeoff on May 15, 1918. Boyle was to fly from Washington to Philadelphia, but got lost and crash landed in Maryland that morning.

Learn more about Lieutenant Boyle.


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