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English: First Lieutenant Phillips Merrill Payson (1892-1977), A.S.A., U.S.A., 166th Aero Squadron, attached to 55th Squadron R.A.F.

Identifier: NewEnglandaviatVol2Tick (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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Corps and Royal Air Force from 20th Oct., 1917, until30th Sept., 1918. He graduated as a Pilot in April, 1918, and had completed approxi-mately 212 hours in the air. He served with No. 55 Squadron, R.A.F., which formed part of the In-dependent Air Force, from 30th June, 1918, to 30th Sept., 1918, duringwhich period he took part in 14 successful bombing raids, and at alltimes displayed great ability and keenness. He was a thoroughly efficientofficer and a good pilot, and on the termination of his attachment toNo. 55 Squadron, the Squadron Commander reported that he shouldmake a very satisfactory Flight Commander. Citation The Army Air Service Commander, First Army, cites the followingofficers and men for exceptional devotion to duty: 24. First Lieutenant P. M. Payson, A.S./U.S.A., as Pilot of the 166thAero Squadron, performed efficient and hazardous work in the Argonne-Meuse sector, Oct.-Nov., 1918, during operations of the First DayBombardment Group. By order of Colonel Milling ( 80 )
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*JOHN F. STAFFORD, Jr. Second Lieutenant, Two Hundred Tenth Squadron, R.A.F.Killed in action, Sept. 29, 1918 Son of John and Maud C. (Birtwell) Stafford; was born at FallRiver, Mass., May 5, 1898. He was educated at Westminster Pre-paratory School, Simsbury, Conn., where he was prominent inathletics, playing three years on the football team and three yearson the baseball team. In Oct., 1917, he enlisted in the Canadian Air Service, at NewYork, being then nineteen years old. He was immediately sent toCanada, and trained at Camp Leaside, Camp Mohawk, and CampBorden successively. He also attended the University of Toronto;and then went to the School of Aerial Gunnery, at Camp Hicks,Fort Worth, Tex., where he was commissioned 2d Lieut, in April,1918. He left about the middle of May, for England, and was atthe Royal Air Force Training Establishment in Cranwell, Sleaford,Lincolnshire, and later at Camp Freiston, Boston, Eng., attachedto the 210th Squadron, R.A.F. At the latter gunnery schoo

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  • bookyear:1919
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Ticknor__Caroline__1866_1937__ed
  • booksubject:Biography
  • booksubject:Aeronautics
  • booksubject:World_War__1914_1918
  • bookpublisher:Boston__New_York__Houghton_Mifflin_Company
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