RARE! BANANA WARS US MARINES CORPS with SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS & LINDBERGH 1928 PHOTO
MARINES CORPS w/ SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS & LINDBERGH 1928 PHOTO. PHOTOGRAPH of CHARLES A. LINDBERGH and HIS PLANE the SPIRIT of ST LOUIS ALONG WITH THE U. MARINE CORPS AVIATION OBSERVATION SQUADRON #9 AT BOWEN AIRFIELD IN THE ISLAND OF HAITI ON FEBRUARY 6-8 1928. MARINE CORPS AVIATION OBSERVATION SQUADRON #9 MARINES AT BOWEN AIRFIELD ALONG WITH OTHER OFFICERS AND DIGNITARIES WITH THE SPIRIT of ST. SERIAL NUMBER (N-X-211) IS VISIBLE UNDER THE WING. THIS WAS ONE OF CHARLES A. LINDBERGH and HIS PLANE The SPIRIT of ST LOUIS’S LAST PROMOTIONAL / GOODWILL FLIGHTS THAT HE FLEW TO BOWEN AIRFIELD AT PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI’S USMC AIR STATION JUST BEFORE FLYING IT TO WASHINGTON D. TO THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE IN WASHINGTON D. TO BE INSTALLED IN THEIR COLLECTION WHERE IT IS TODAY. PERIOD PENCILED CAPTION ON THE REVERSE. Marine Corps Observation Squadron #9. Bowen Field Haiti 1920-30s. DIMENSIONS: 4″ x 8″. SHARP FOCUS AND VERY GOOD CONTRAST. THE PHOTO CONDITION COULD BE BETTER BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS. THIS IS NOT A REPRODUCTION OR A COPY. Charles Augustus Lindbergh b. 1974 was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25, he achieved instantaneous world fame by making the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris on May 20-21, 1927. The Spirit of St. Louis (Registration: N-X-211) is the custom-built, single engine, single-seat, high wing monoplane flown by Charles Lindberg May 20-21, 1927, on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight from New York, to France. During the United States occupation of Haiti in 1919 the United States Marine Corps stationed Marine Observation units using HS-1 and HS-2 aircraft in what became Bowen Field.