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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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tyat Chanute Field, Rantoul, 111., from July 26, to Sept. 4,1917; atFort Sill, Okla., from Sept. 4 to May 9, 1918; and at TaliaferroField, Fort Worth, Tex., from May 9 to July 1, 1918. He sailed overseas on July 15, 1918, and trained at Issoudun,France, from Aug. 15 to Sept. 1, when he was attached to the135th Squadron. On Sept. 12 he was forced to land on Swiss soil,his machine having been damaged by anti-aircraft fire. He refusedto give his parole not to try to make his escape, and was im-prisoned at Addermatt, Switzerland, until the end of the war. OnOct. 16, 1918, he made a desperate attempt to escape on a ropemade from his bedclothes; but the rope broke and Lieut. Fullerfell a considerable distance and was badly injured. He was re-imprisoned, and remained in captivity until Dec. 7, 1918, when hewas released by the Swiss government. He returned to the U.S.on Jan. 3, and was honorably discharged on Jan. 10, 1919. Brother in Service — Ashmead Fuller, 1st Lieut., A.S., U.S.A. (52 1
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ARTHUR L. CLARK First Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A., Twenty-Fourth AeroSquadron, First Observation Group Son of Eugene W. and Jane (Putnam) Clark; was born at JamaicaPlain, Mass., on Dec. 18, 1892. He was educated at the RoxburyLatin School, at the West Roxbury High School, at the Mass. Agri-cultural College, and at the Rhode Island State College. He was asophomore in the Agricultural Department of the Rhode IslandState College when he enlisted at Plattsburg, N.Y., May 12, 1917.On Aug. 14, 1917, he was honorably discharged from the Officers*Training Camp at Plattsburg, and on the same day reenlisted inthe S.E.R.C. at Mineola, N.Y., as private, 1st class. He was assigned to the Ground School at M.I.T., and from theretransferred to the Aviation School at Mineola, N.Y. He was furthertrained at the School for Observers at Fort Sill, Okla. On Jan. 4,1918, he was commissioned 2d Lieut, at Garden City, N.Y.,and on Jan. 5 assigned to active duty with detachment of AerialObservers, No. 1. He sail

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