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On May 6, 1914, Lt. (jg) Patrick N. L. Bellinger, flying the Curtiss AH-3 was hit by rifle fire while on a reconnaissance flight over enemy positions in the vicinity of Veracruz, Mexico, the first such incident in U.S. naval aviation.
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