It has been said by many that the age of innocence for America ended with World War I. The summer of 1916 would be the last the Jersey Shore would enjoy. That year the war in Europe raged on both the Eastern and Western fronts. The airplane, which had first demonstrated its wartime usefulness when Glenn Curtiss “bombed” the Atlantic City beaches in 1910, was now seen as an instrument of destruction.
However, two young men – a wealthy Chicagoan, Kenneth Jaquith, and an Atlantic City local, Beryl Kendrick – did all…
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