Aviation Playing Big Part In Mexican Trouble
The Vera Cruz occupation shows aeroplanes as a key future asset with navy aviators flying over the city to deter sniper activity. The Hey bill creates a first aviation corps under the signal corps with twelve squadrons in major U S cities and seasoned pilots to lead them.
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United States Aviation
Vera Cruz
Texas Border
Thomas DeWitt Milling
Chester
Vera Cruz Harbor
J. H. Towers
Bellinger
LaMont
Mustin
Saufley
Mexico
Signal Corps
Army
Navy
Vera
Cruz
Mississippi
Delano
New York City
Albany
Rochester
Buffalo
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Newark
New Haven
Boston
Mortimer Delano
Laurence Hi) Grahame
Gibert Schermerhorn
Aeronautics
Grahame
Porto Rico
Roosevelt
Schermerhorn
National Guard of
New York
T. H. Bridgman
Twelfth Regiment
Wright Flying Boat
W. Irving Twombly
Deperdussen
Jerome Kingsbury
F. Harrison Higgins
Curtiss
Harold H. Brown
Massachusetts Coast Artillery
Wright
Raymond
W. Morris
V. J. Mayo
William Bouldin
Clarence P. Wynne
The
Aero Club of Pennsylvania
Harold B. Anderson
Ohio Naval Militia
Winton Automobile Company
Costs of provisioning half a million troops in Mexico
The article outlines daily feeding costs at about $125,000 for 500,000 troops, with rations estimated at 25 cents per man per day. It describes large nonperishable stocks, sea and rail logistics, water purification, and regional depots to sustain operations, noting a cold storage ship and a refrigerated supply plan.
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Mexico
Congress
Galveston
Navy
Vera Cruz
New York
Winslow Navy Leader Commands East Coast Vessel Squadron
Rear Admiral Winslow leads a special service squadron including battleships New York and Texas and cruisers Washington and Montana off Vera Cruz. The long‑time hero of Cuban cable cutting is praised for seamanship, with a career spanning Newport torpedo work, Cushing command, and securing the New Hampshire route to New York.
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Cameron M.R. Winslow
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Winslow
New York
Texas
Washington
Montana
Tacoma
Des Moines
Chester
Salem
Nashville
Dolphin
Castine
Machias
Paducah
Wheeling
Petreil
Eagle
Cienfuegos
Spain
Newport
Secretary of the Navy
John D. Long
Cushing
American Steel Torpedo Boat Flotilla
New Hampshire
New York Navy Yard
Admiral Winslow
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John J. Breen
Southern Army
United States
Aviation Corps
Aero Club of America
War Department
American Presa Association
Walton Williams
American Press Association
Mess
Tex
Camp Kitchen
Winslow Every
Sailor
Wyorming
Atlantic Fleet
Kearsarge
Admiral Porter
Annapolis
Tennessee
Coast Survey
Ready
Arthur J. Brintom
American Presse Association
Rear Admiral Winslow