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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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ance with instructions from Commanding Officer the fol-lowing is submitted: 2d Lieut. Volney D. Hukd, A.S. On Nov. 11, 1918,Lieut. Hurd was detailed as Combat Instructor at Field No. 8. Despitehis lack of previous experience as an instructor, his alertness and abilityto fly soon made his work noticeable in its thoroughness. He displayed awillingness to work and a precision in his efforts that marked him as anexponent of the efficiency of the field. His careful analysis and correctionof the faults of his pupils made them pilots of high standard. (Signed) H. L. Wingate Captain, A.S. You would not have been selected to be a member of the teaching forceof the largest and most important flying school in France if it had notbeen that you showed unusual ability as a pilot and reliability and trust-worthiness as an officer. Your self-sacrifice and loyalty in training othersto achieve brilliant victories merits the highest commendation. (Signed) Hiram Bingham Lt.-Col., A.S., Commanding ( 356 )
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FREDERIC WYLLIS CALDWELL Second Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A., Forty-Eighth AeroSquadron, First Provisional Wing Son of Frederic Atherton and Sylvia (Woodin) Caldwell, of Kings-ton, R.I.; was born at Toledo, O., Sept. 22, 1892. He was educatedat the Woonsocket (R.I.) public schools, and at Rhode Island StateCollege, where he was on the basket-ball and track teams. He enlisted in the Aviation Service at Cambridge, Mass., July15, 1917. He graduated from the M.I.T. Ground School Nov. 17,and was ordered to Garden City, N.Y., for overseas training. Hewas transferred to the Flying School, Love Field, Dallas, Tex.,Dec. 25,1917, where he completed his course and was commissioned2d Lieut. April 20, 1918. He was sent successively to Camp Dick,to Langley Field, Hampton, Va., and to Taliaferro Field, FortWorth, Tex., where he was retained as instructor until Oct. 2,1918,when he was again transferred to Garden City for overseas service.He was attached to the 48th Squadron, 1st Provisional Wing, atMit

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