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Identifier: NewEnglandaviatVol1Tick (find matches)
Title: New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed
Subjects: Biography Aeronautics World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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nded the Officers Training Camp at Plattsburg in 1916, and trained with Harvard R.O.T.C. in 1917. He enlisted at Boston in April, 1917, and attended the 1st Officers Training Camp at Plattsburg from May to August 1917. He was appointed to the 301st Mass. Infantry with the commission of 2nd Lieut, on August 15, 1917; and trained at Camp Devens, Mass., until March, 1918. He was stationed at Aviation Ground School, Austin, Tex., from March to May, 1918, detached from Service for instruction as a pilot. He attended Princeton Ground School in June, 1917; and Chanute Flying Field, Rantoul, 111 from July to October 1918. He was appointed Reserve Military Aviator in October 1918, and transferred to Love Field, Dallas, Tex., where he spent November and December 1918. Lieut. Ward was honorably discharged from the Army on December 13, 1918, at Love Field, Dallas, Tex. Grandfather in Service — Captain Andrew Abbot Ward, U.S.N., Civil War, Grandfather in Service — Sergeant David Elwell Saunders, U.S.A., Civil War. (344)
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MARSHALL HEADLE First Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.SA., Second Aviation Instruction Centre Son of Rev. Edwin Charles and Clarendo (Yeomans) Headle, of Bolton, Mass.; was born in Winthrop, Mass., March 21, 1893. He was educated at the Winthrop High School, and the Mass .Agricultural College, Amherst. He was one of the first in rank at college, though having to work his way through. He played baseball, and was the best shot in the rifle team. He enlisted in Aviation at the beginning of the war, at Springfield, Mass., and was trained at M.I.T. Ground School. He sailed overseas and landed in France September 17, 1917. He started flying under French instructors at Tours, and was trained with the Caudron plane, receiving his Reserve Military Aviation grade, in February 1918, and the French brevet at the same time. For the next two months he took advanced flying on Nieuports, at Issoudun, in the 3rd Aviation Instruction Centre, returning to Tours in March, 1918, when he began instruction in flying, and acted as staff

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