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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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ambridge on July 7,1917, in the Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps,and began active service at the Ground School, M.I.T., on Aug. 20, 1917. Graduating on Oct. 13, he was sent to Mineola EmbarkationCamp, N.Y.; and on Nov. 14, 1917, sailed overseas. He waited atTours and St.-Maixent until the end of March, 1918, when he wassent for flying instruction to the French school at Chateauroux.After preliminary training and the French brevet tests, he wasstationed at Issoudun for further training, from July 12 to Aug. 17.While at Chateauroux he was commissioned 1st Lieut., May 18, 1918. From Issoudun he was sent to the 2d A.I.C. at Tours, Aug.17, 1918, to take the course for Corps dArmee Pilots. Shortlyafterwards this centre began to train observers exclusively, so thatthe Corps dArmee Pilots course was discontinued, and Lieut.Benedict was transferred to the status of Staff Pilot, to fly in co-operation with the observers. He remained on this duty until hisdischarge in France, April 1, 1919. ( 172 )
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WENDELL GAGE REYCROFT Ensign, U.S.N.A.S. Northern Bombing Group, France Son of Louis Wendell and Eliza Morgan (Gage) Reycroft, ofArlington, Mass.; was born at Boston on May 11, 1894. He waseducated at the Arlington public schools, and at Dartmouth Col-lege, A.B. 1917. In high school he was captain of the footballteam in 1913, and of the hockey team in the same year. At Dart-mouth he played on the Varsity hockey team for three years. He enlisted at Arlington, and was trained at the M.I.T. GroundSchool, Cambridge. On graduation he was ordered to Key West,Fla., where he was commissioned Ensign, and then ordered toMiami, Fla., as Instructor in Flying. He applied for overseas serv-ice, and sailed for France in detail Aug. 1, 1918. He saw servicewith the Northern Bombing Group of Headquarters in Flandersand Belgium. At last reports he was still in Service at Norfolk, Va. Brothers in Service — Harlan Long Reycroft, Ensign, U.S.N.A.S.Harrie Fay Reycroft, Private, 26th Balloon Co., France.Lo

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