This Week in American Military History: Nov. 14, 1910:  In a Naval aviation first, Eugene B. Ely makes an airplane takeoff from a ship, doing so in a Curtiss Flyer off the cruiser USS Birmingham anchored in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Ely will make the first-ever airplane-landing aboard ship (the USS Pennsylvania) in Jan. 1911, then … Continue reading From the King of Battle to Second Fallujah