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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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GEORGE DANA ANDERSON Lieutenant (j.g.), U.S.N.R.F.
Son of James Robb and Katharine Dana Anderson, of Somerville, Mass.; was born at Denver, Col., June 6, 1895. He attended the Somerville public schools, and entered the Mass. Institute of Technology, where he remained for two years. He took three years at Boston University, being granted leave of absence in May, 1917, to enlist. He trained with the R.O.T.C., and on June 30, 1917, enrolled as seaman, second class, in the U.S.N.R.F., and was ordered to the Naval Aviation Ground School at M.I.T., where he trained until ordered overseas Oct. 20, 1917. On reaching London he was sent to Roehampton, for kite balloon and dirigible training, and from there, on Dec. 10, he was ordered to the Royal Naval Air Station, Cranwell, Lincolnshire. On Feb. 20, 1918, he was sent to the Royal Naval Air Station at East Fortune, Scotland, where his duties consisted of fleet reconnaissance, anti-submarine work, and convoy duty. He was commissioned Ensign, with Pilot's license, in March, 1918. After a few weeks as Second Officer, at East Fortune, he acted as Captain of one of the ships at this station, where he remained for seven months. In Oct., 1918, he was commissioned Lieut, (j.g.), and was ordered to the Royal Naval Construction Station, at Kingsnorth, for a course in designs and the rigging of airships. On Nov. 15 he was sent to the U.S. Naval Aviation Headquarters, London, and attached to the Bureau of Construction; there he did special work on repairs and testing, and on parachutes, being one of two men who volunteered for, and actually made two daring parachute jumps. On April 1, 1919, Lieut. Anderson was ordered to Washington, D.C., for duty in the Office of Naval Operations. On Sept. 1, 1919, he was appointed Aide for Aviation Recruiting. He performed approximately 500 hours of patrol duty during the war. He is still in the Service. (p. 288)
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RALPH H. NORRIS Lieutenant (j.g.), U.S.N.R.F.C. Son of Charles H. and Elizabeth M. Norris; was born at Chelsea,Mass., March 29, 1892. He attended the Chelsea public schools and Sanborn Seminary, and graduated from Dartmouth College. He enlisted in May, 1917, in the U.S.N.R.F.C. at Boston, Mass.,and was assigned to the Naval Aviation School at M.I.T., where he received instruction in the main rudiments of dirigible and balloon work. Upon completing this course he was ordered overseas to London, Oct. 20, 1917, and thence to Roehampton for kite balloon and dirigible training with the Royal Naval Air Service, where he qualified as a Free Balloon Pilot. On Dec. 10, 1918, he was assigned to the Royal Naval Air Station at Cranwell, Lincolnshire, to qualify as a Dirigible Pilot. He was commissioned Ensign, March, 1918,and Lieut, (j.g.) in Sept., 1918. He was assigned to the Royal Naval Air Service Station at Tern-broke, Wales; from there he went to Mullion, Cornwall, and thence to the U.S. Naval Air

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