The Army’s L-19
Combat aircraft assigned to ground fighting battalions, brigades and divisions of the Army belong to pure Army aviation—not the Air Force—and trace their origins to June 6, 1942, when the first fabric-covered light planes joined artillery units. The Cessna L-19 Bird Dog, probably the Army’s most famous airplane, resulted from a 1949 decision to replace the aging L-4 Piper Cub and L-5 Stinson Sentinel spotter planes that had served valiantly in WW II. The Pentagon...
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