My question about the US Navy before ww2

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aidenmac16

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Can we all agree in Pensacola, the Navy had some aircraft/prototypes they experimented before ww2, creating beautiful, magnificent, flying machines!

Am I right?
 
What were US Navy aircraft markings during the 1920s-1930s? (Give me a full description)
 
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What was the evolution of the Us Navy's other uniforms during this time?
 
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What were US Navy aircraft markings during the 1920s-1930s? (Give me a full description)
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Aircraft Markings

Aircraft of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps have carried distinguishing markings almost from the beginning of naval aviation. The earliest being the aircraft building number, preceded by a block letter A, painted on a vertical surface, usually the rudder. Before the United States entered...
www.history.navy.mil


US Navy Aircraft Identification Colors Before World War II

Here is our US Navy Aircraft Identification Colors Before World War II feature.
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In Fact, the old runways are at the old Cape May Naval Air Station is still there and you can still visit the old site.

The Naval base closed in 1922.

You need to explain during the time before its closure before 1922.

(above) A ground view of the grass Field with the zeppelin hangar in the back with the line of Curtiss Falcons on the grass field.

An areal view of Cape May Naval Air Station, and you can see the Zeppelin hangar is gone from the destruction from a hurricane that happened in 1938.

Sources are from Abandoned and Little Known Airfields, New Jersey, Cape May Area.
 
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