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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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ing second baseon the team. At Harvard he was a member of the Delphic Club,Hasty Pudding, D.K.E., and Institute of 1770; and was on thestaff of the Lampoon. He trained with the Harvard R.O.T.C. fromFeb. to May, 1916. When war was declared he left college, and onApril 30, 1917, enlisted in U.S.N.R.F., at the Brooklyn, N.Y.,Navy Yard. From May 8 to Oct. 25, 1917, he served as Quarter-master on board the U.S.S. Tarantula (S.P. 124), guarding theentrance to New York Harbor. From Feb. 18 to May 1, 1918,he studied at the Aviation Ground School, M.I.T., acting asC.Q.M. (Aviation). From May 4 to July 14 he had elementarytraining at U.S.N.A. Station, Miami, Fla. From July 17 toSept. 25 he took advanced training at Pensacola, Fla. He was com-missioned Ensign, Sept. 14, 1918, and was ordered to England.From Nov. 4 to Dec. 1, 1918, he was attached to the U.S.N.A.Station, at Moutchic-Lacanau, France. He returned to the U.S.and received inactive duty orders, Jan. 13, 1919, at Bay Shore,N.Y. ( 340 )
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CARL ELLIOT SHUMWAY Lieutenant (j.g.), U.S.N.R.F., First Naval Kite BalloonUnit Son of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin P. Shumway; was born at Melrose,Mass., June 30, 1890. He graduated from the Melrose High School,and from Dartmouth College, class of 1913. At college he wasmember of the freshman track team in 1909, and of the footballsquad in 1911. He was high-point winner at the Dartmouth WinterCarnival in 1913, and second in one-mile New England swimmingchampionship, 1914, 1915, and 1916. On July 10, 1917, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy Aviation Corps,and trained at Akron, Ohio, from Oct. 10 to Jan. 21, 1918. Hecompleted training at Rockaway Beach, N.Y., Jan. 30, and sailedoverseas for Liverpool, Feb. 26, 1918. From March 9 to April 6 hewas stationed at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Queenstown, Ire.,when he was transferred to the Royal Navy Station at Castletown,Berehaven, Ire., as representative of U.S.N.A. forces. On April 29,1918, this station was taken over by the U.S., and Lieut. Shum-way w

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