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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 his commission as 1st Lieut., A.S., U.S.A., and con-tinued his training at the French and U.S. Aviation Schools inFrance, notably at Issoudun. Lieut. Edwards spent the winter of1917-18 on the Brittany coast. In the summer of 1918 he trainedstudent officers from the U.S. at Issoudun, in the use of de Havi-land machines. After the Armistice, Lieut. Edwards was chosen special courierfor Gen. Patrick, Chief of the U.S. Air Service. His official dutywas to take by airplane from Tours to Paris the completed MS.of the history of the American Air Service in France. He re-ceived a special recommendation for this courier work from Col.Hiram Bingham, his Commanding Officer; special commendationalso for his work in training student officers. He was honorablydischarged on Feb. 20, 1919, at Paris. Married, Nov. 30, 1918, Marcelle Moch, of France. Brother in Service*— B. Allison Edwards, Capt. U.S.A., 302 F.A., A.E.F. Grandfather in Service — Lewis Allison Edwards, M.D., Col., U.S.A. ( 338 )
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JOE GARNER ESTILL, Jr. First Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A. Son of Joe Garner and Mary (North) Estill; was born in Lake-ville, Conn., May 6, 1894. He attended the New Haven publicschools, graduated from Hotchkiss School, and Yale ScientificSchool. He holds the record of Hotchkiss School for half-mile, %5. He enlisted in Boston on May 21, 1917, and trained at M.I.T.Ground School; had flying training at Mineola, N.Y., and wasstationed at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex., for a short time. OnOct. 3, 1917, he was commissioned 1st Lieut, in Aviation Section,Signal Service. Lieut. Estill returned to Mineola, and was ordered overseas onOct. 30, 1917. He reported at Issoudun, at the 3d Aviation In-struction Centre; and was sent later to Chateauroux to fly withthe French; thence to Coetquidan, for pilot, at the American Ar-tillery Observation School for some months. He then went backto Issoudun and finished his training in all forms of flying — scoutflying, aerial gunnery, acrobacy, bombing. He wa

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