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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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tal, he continued his train-ing (on the Caudron G-3 type). In Dec, 1917, as Starrett wasmaking the first lap of the triangle from Tours to Pontleroy, whichwas part of the trial test, he was first seen by the mechanics at thefield, about 500 metres from the ground, heading for the airdrome.Suddenly the plane peeked over and dived for the earth about twokilometres from the hangars, never redressing. Starrett died in-stantly. He was buried at Tours with full military honors by theFrench and American officials. Just at the time of his accident hehad been planning to return home on a furlough. In a memorial dis-course delivered before the students of Brown University sometime after his death, the Dean said that Frank Starrett was a manwhom all Brown men might well emulate, and whose memoryshould be ever cherished by the university. Brother in Service — Arthur H. Starrett, Cadet, A.S.A., U.S.A.; Sergeant, 1st class,in 139th and 32d Aero Squadrons. In service in France for14 months. ( 42 )
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HAROLD BUCKLEY WILLIS Sous-Lieutenant, Lafayette Escadrille Son of John B. and Myrta (Gale) Willis; was born at Boston, Mass.,Feb. 9, 1890. He attended the Newton High School, and graduatedfrom Harvard College, class of 1912. He served in Battery A,M.V.M., 1913-14. He enlisted in the American Ambulance Field Service in Feb.,1915, and arrived at the western front, with Section 2, at Pont-a-Mousson, in April, 1915. From Feb. to May he served with theAmbulance at Verdun. He was cited, July 4, 1915, for rescue ofwounded under fire, offensive Bois-le-Pretre, Croix de Guerrewith Star. In June, 1915, he enlisted in the Foreign Legion of the FrenchArmy, and transferred to 2d Groupe dAviation. He was brevettedpilot on Bleriot, at Buc. He trained successively at Nieuport Per-fectionnement School, at Avord; Machine-Gun School, Cazaux;Combat and Acrobatics, at Pau; Spad, at Plessis-Belleville. He arrived on the Somme front with the Lafayette Escadrille(N 124), in March, 1917, under Capt. Theraul

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