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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 with the new Ameri-can Day Bombing Squadron, No. 11, and took part in a number ofraids through the St.-Mihiel offensive. On Sept. 18, Lieut. Chapinand his observer, Clair B. Laird, of Algona, Iowa, were broughtdown back of the enemy lines north of the Chambley-Toul sectorby enemy machines. The observer had been wounded by the fire ofmachine guns. Both men were captured, and kept as prisoners ofwar until Nov. 28, 1918, when they were exchanged through Swit-zerland. Lieut. Chapin received the Croix de Guerre for his serviceswith the French. He was honorably discharged at Mineola, N.Y.,in April, 1919. Croix de Guerre Le Chef dEscadron, Vuillemin, Commandant FEscadre, cite a Fordrede FEscadre 12: Chapin, Roger, 1° Lieutenant Pilote, americain, de lescadrille Br. 127:Excellent pilote, toujours volontaire pour les missions perilleuses. A pris part aux bombardements des 15 et 28 juillet et des 10 et 11 aout, 1918, qui not causes a lennemi des pertes considerables. Signs: Vuillemin ( 108 )
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GEORGE DANA SPEAR First Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.SA., Eleventh Aero SquadronFirst Day Bombardment Group Son of Frank N. and Julia (Smith) Spear, of Walpole, Mass.; wasborn in Walpole, on Nov. 18, 1895. He was educated in the publicschools of Walpole and graduated from M.I.T. in 1917. He enlistedin the Aviation Service in Boston, on July 2, 1917. After a groundcourse at M.I.T. he sailed overseas in August to finish his trainingin England. He attended the School of Military Aeronautics in Oxford, Eng.,and was soon after sent to Grantham, Eng., for an instructorscourse in machine guns. He was then ordered to Scampton, inLincolnshire, to learn the working and managing of a squadron.On Feb. 1, 1918, he was sent to Waddington, Lincolnshire, foractual flying training, and thence to Bircham-Newton, Norfolk,for work in fighting. He was then ordered to London, and thereassigned to the Central Despatch Pool in London for ferry duty.On Sept. 10 he proceeded to France with the A.E.F. After threedays

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  • bookyear:1919
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  • booksubject:Biography
  • booksubject:Aeronautics
  • booksubject:World_War__1914_1918
  • bookpublisher:Boston__New_York__Houghton_Mifflin_Company
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