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Identifier: NewEnglandaviatVol1Tick (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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, the23 doubles and singles, and 18 metres all in about a week, and am now overon the 15-metre machine, which is the smallest machine we have. I prob-ably will be here a couple of weeks or so, perhaps not as long as that; thenI have to have a gunnery course — that will take about another week, andthen yours truly will be ready for that longed-for crack at the Hun. . . . As we progress from one field to the next, planes get smaller and better,and Im really in love with the liT babies. I know I will make good be-cause I love the work and have so much confidence in myself. I feel athome quite as much when Im upside down in the air, at an altitude of acouple of miles, as I do when I am flying level at a few feet off the ground.But never have a fear, cause above all things Im careful, cause Im al-ways thinking of you. Brother in Service: Russell Johnson Woodward, 2d Lieut.,25th Engineers, A.E.F. Grandfather in Service: John Andrew Woodward, 22d Con-necticut Volunteers, Civil War. ( 288 )
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JOHN LESTER HUBBARD First Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A., Tenth Aero SquadronKilled in airplane accident, Aug. 18, 1918 Son of Henry F. and Julia (Calligan) Hubbard, of Providence,R.I.; was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., Nov. 9, 1895. He was edu-cated at the Moses Brown School, Providence, R.L, and at HarvardCollege, class of 1918. At the Moses Brown School he was one of theeditors of the school paper, president of his class in junior andsenior years, and at graduation won the Harvard Prize. At schoolhe was captain and catcher for two years of the baseball team, andcaptain of the football team in his junior and senior years. At Har-vard he won his H for playing on the Varsity lacrosse team. He joined the R.O.T.C. at Harvard, and was sent to the 1stTraining Camp at Plattsburg. He was one of the first to answer thecall from Washington for volunteers for the Aviation Corps, enlist-ing in April, 1917. He was sent to the M.I.T. Ground School fortraining, and graduated as an honor man. He sailed ove

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