Patrick Murphy was an Irish-American pilot who mistakenly bombed the border town of Naco, Arizona in April 1929 during the Escobar Rebellion.
[1] Murphy owned a biplane around the time of the Cristero War (also known as "The Cristiada") in Mexico against the purportedly anti-Catholic and secular government of Emilio Portes Gil.
Murphy was hired to aid the rebels by using his biplane to bomb the government-controlled town of Naco, Sonora.
Murphy, along with other Mexican rebel troops and pilots, surrendered to US authorities in Nogales, Arizona on April 30.
The balladeer Dolan Ellis honored Murphy in his song "The Bombing of Naco" from his album Tall Tales, Lost Trails & Heroes.