Guy House's photos of WWI and WWII Era Airplanes, Dirigibles and Ships.

Most of the below photos were taken by my Grandfather at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola Florida.  Guy House had enlisted in the US Navy in mid 1917 and was discharged in June 1919.  Guy was himself a pilot and flew some of the airplanes pictured below.  He served again in the Navy in the early-mid 1940's with the Naval Advanced Air Training Command at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida.  Lieut. Comdr. Guy F. House retired from active duty in Jan 1946.

Note, none of the planes at Pensacola had wheels.  The Naval air station had no runways.  The planes took off and landed on the water - or crashed.  There were many crashes.

From Wikipedia:

Upon the entry of the United States into World War I on 6 April 1917, Pensacola, still the only naval air station, had 38 naval aviators, 163 enlisted men trained in aviation support, and 54 fixed-wing aircraft. Two years later, by the signing of the armistice in November 1918, the air station, with 438 officers and 5,538 enlisted men, had trained 1,000 naval aviators. At war's end, seaplanes, dirigibles, and free kite balloons were housed in steel and wooden hangars stretching a mile down the air station beach.

In the years between his two stints in the Navy, Guy House attended Friends University in Kansas and earned a teaching degree.  In the early 1930s he taught at the Wyandotte High School where he led his students in constructing a new design airplane which they named the Wyandotte Pup (pic 31 below).   I've been told that the Piper Cub design evolved from the Wyandotte Pup.

(To get a zoomed view of any of the below pics, point and click.  Click a second time for a further zoom level.)

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 pic 31  Leland and Milton House next to the Wyandotte Pup,  1932  

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pic 33  Friends University 1924 Football Team  

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From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_gun):

A railway gun, also called a railroad gun, is a large artillery piece, often surplus naval ordnance, mounted on, transported by, and fired from a specially designed railway wagon. Many countries have built railway guns, but the best known are the large Krupp-built pieces used by Germany in World War I and World War II. Smaller guns were often part of an armoured train.

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