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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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Aug. 23; he continued histraining at Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 23 to Dec.30. He was transferred to Ellington Field, Houston, Tex., andstationed there from Dec. 30, 1917, to July 5, 1918 (student andInstructor in day and night bombing). He was commissioned 2dLieut., Feb. 21, 1918. He was ordered to Taliaferro Field, FortWorth, Tex., July 5 to Aug. 17, serving as Instructor in AerialGunnery. He sailed overseas and was stationed at the 7th A.I.C, Clermont-Ferrand, France, from Sept. 30 to Oct. 22, 1918, as student andInstructor in Bombing. On Oct. 22, 1918, he was injured in wreckof a D.H. 4. He returned to the U.S. and at last accounts was in theBase Hospital, at Camp Devens, Mass. Lieut. Mackenzie was the first night-bombing and day-bombingpilot to be trained in the U.S. and sent abroad. He sailed with twoothers, Lieuts. Jenkins and Nichols; the three being at that timethe only completely trained bombing pilots in the U.S. Married, Aug. 23, 1918, Margaret Traynor. ( 178 )
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MARVIN SOMERSETT BOWMAN Second Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.SA., Seventh AviationInstruction Centre, A.E.F. Son of Rev. John Elliot and Charly (Root) Bowman; was born atSomerville, Mass., Dec. 30, 1895. He was educated at VermontAcademy, Saxtons River, Vt., and at Harvard College, where heremained for two years with the class of 1916. Prior to his entryinto the U.S. Service he was a member of the staff of the BostonEvening Record. He enlisted in Boston, Aug., 1917, as private in the 301st FieldArtillery. In Feb., 1918, he was transferred to the Air Service, andtrained at the Ground School, Cornell, at Dallas, Tex., and atSelf ridge Field, Mich. He sailed overseas in Aug., 1918, and wasstationed at Brest, St.-Maixent, and at Clermont-Ferrand. Hewas commissioned 2d Lieut., A.S.A., July 30, 1918, and was madea member of the instruction staff of the 7th A.I.C., Clermont-Ferrand, France. In the following communication he has graphically describedthe spirit of the French toward the American aviato

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