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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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the Varsity soccer team, 1916-17. He was a member of Bat-tery A, 1st Mass. Regt, F.A., N.G., and in 1916 saw four monthsservice on the Mexican Border. In April, 1917, he enlisted with the1st Harvard Regiment. He trained at the 1st Officers TrainingCamp at Plattsburg, and after finishing the course was transferredto the Air Service. He attended the Ground School, M.I.T., andgraduated the high honor man of the Squadron. He then hadtraining in flying at Gerstner Field, La., and at Ellington Field,Houston, Tex. He was appointed Instructor at Baker Field, N.Y.,and then at Langley Field, Va. He was commissioned 2d Lieut., May 3, 1918. At the time of theArmistice he was under overseas orders, at Newport News, beingattached to the General Staff, Tours, France. Upon application, Lieut. Emmons was honorably discharged atWashington, D.C., on Dec. 13, 1918. Brother in Service — Arthur B.Emmons, 2d, Capt., Medical Corps,U.S.A.; Evacua-tion Hospital No. 2; appointed Head of Medical Dept. ( 182 )
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JOHN BROWN PAYSON Second Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A. Son of Herbert and Sally Carroll (Brown) Payson; was born atPortland, Me., Oct. 1, 1897. He attended the public schools ofPortland, and the Salisbury School, Salisbury, Conn. He enteredYale College in 1916, leaving to enter the Service in 1917. He attended the Plattsburg Training Camp in 1916, and was amember of the Yale R.O.T.C. Battery. He enlisted in the AirService at Boston, Mass., Dec. 11, 1917. He began his training at the Ground School, Cornell University,Ithaca, N.Y., in Feb., 1918; in March he was transferred to CampDick, Dallas, Tex., and from there was sent to Payne Field, WestPoint, Miss., where he was commissioned 2d Lieut., Aug. 20, 1918.He was assigned to the Armorers School, Wilbur Wright Field,Dayton, Ohio, in Sept., 1918, and from there he was transferred toField No. 2, Garden City, N.Y. On Dec. 18,1918, he was honorablydischarged at Garden City, N.Y. (Portrait on opposite page.) EDWARD TAPPAN BRACKETT Second Lieute

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