The Shenandoah was the U.S. Navy’s baby, the first of four, whose mission would be reconnaissance flights over the Pacific watching for a Japanese battle fleet. But first, the Navy sent the Shenandoah on a cross-country flight in October 1924, covering 9,000 miles in the air.
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