The Curtiss Jenny as an Air Ambulance, circa 1920….
This Jenny is detached from Naval Air Station San Diego, and serving with The Marines in Port Au Prince Haiti (and Panama, and Nicaragua, etc etc)
During the “lul” between the Word Wars, Marines were the only US force gaining valuable combat experience Central America and the Caribbean…In the Banana Wars they pioneered the concepts of Dive Bombing, Close Air Support, and in this Paint Scheme, medical evacuation from the battlefield…...
