Admiral Jackson & Crew of NC-4, 1919. Shows crew members of the Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat NC-4 which flew the first trans-Atlantic flight in 1919. From left to right: Lieutenant Elmer F. Stone of the Coast Guard; Chief Petty Officer Eugene C. Rhoads of the Navy; Lieutenant Walter Hinton of the Navy; Ensign Herbert C. Rodd, a radio operator in the Navy; Lieutenant James Lawrence Breese, Jr.(1884-1959); Admiral Albert Cushing "Putty" Read (1887-1967) and Admiral Richard Harrison Jackson (1866-1971).

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