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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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t Clermont-Ferrand, after stating that on account of the skill, judgment, andability of Lieut. Stearns, he had retained him as instructor, wrote: Though he did nt like it, he accepted his assignment cheerfully and didsplendidly as an instructor. . . . We soon grew to have absolute con-fidence in him. He was above all things reliable. He never did any spec-tacular flying, but every movement in the air was perfect, and he knewwhat he was doing every instant of the time. . . . There were two or three Fiats, which were ready for testing. ... Itseems that he had taken up one. . . . The immediate cause of the troublewas a vertical bank at about 2000 feet, during which the nose of the ma-chine fell, which resulted in a tail-spin. . . . He was instantly killed. . . .No other accident ever did, or will, affect me as that one did. He was sucha dear boy; and he represented the very best in young American manhood. Brother in Service — George Gill Stearns, 1st Canadian Reserve Battalion. ( 354 )
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VOLNEY DALTON HURD Second Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A., Six Hundred Forty-Fourth Aero Squadron Son of George W. and Jessie (Dalton) Hurd; was born in Boston,May 2, 1898. He was educated at the English High School, Boston,and had one year at Northeastern College. He enlisted on Oct. 26, 1917, at Boston, and was trained atM.I.T. Ground School and Cornell University, later going toGerstner Field, Lake Charles, La. He was commissioned 2d Lieut,on May 9, 1918, as pursuit pilot, and sailed overseas Sept. 17, 1918.He was attached to the 644th Squadron at Issoudun, France. OnMay 8, 1918, he fell 800 feet with his machine, completely wreck-ing it, but escaping with a few minor cuts and bruises. He wasappointed one of the eight instructors in France of aerial fightingand tactics. When his school closed he became interested in fur-thering entertainments for those in Service and was attached tothe Show Detail, taking a company of 25 enlisted men organizedas a minstrel show, to all the camps and stati

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