When I joined VMS-1 at Quantico in April of 1940,they were flying the BG-1 My 1st.ride in the back seat was with a Cpl.Samuel E Moose A NAP. He made PFC the day he received his wings at Pensacola.Unfotunately we lost hime at sea off of San Diego 2-8-42.

I recently watched an old Jimmy Cagney movie, "Devil Dogs of the Air." Corney movie but the flying sequences were quite good for a thirties movie. Planes looked like the BG-1 except the cowling was smaller than shown above.

I had the opertunity to ride in theBG-1 It was a squadron assigned to the Carrier Ranger as Boming squadron 4 , 1938 there was a Marine Boming squadron located on North Island Naval Air station San Diego CA Very rugged Airplane, Only had one fatel while I was there some Mechanics had repaird the ring cowl using (so) soft aluminum rivits instead of heat treated rivets and on a dive bombing run the Cowl came off and sheared the top wing off, Results FATAL.