Seaplane in the Battery subscriber-fathers-day Read tales from the front

Read tales from the front lines of the Civil War

and caused widespread damage on the Continent

"Let us thank God for our people

the more than 40 watchtowers we passed are closely spaced

flit and hover over the Battery in Lower Manhattan

Seaplane in the Battery subscriber-fathers-day Read tales from the frontCaptain Wolfgang Von Gronau of Germany and three companions set their seaplane down at the Battery in New York after blazing a 4,670 mile trail across the Atlantic by way of the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Nova Scotia, spending 47 hours in the air. Von Gronau's 4,670 mile flight proved that airplanes were viable for traveling long distances. He later circumnavigated the globe in his Dornier Wal seaplane, starting and ending in Sylt, Germany.