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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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yedat the Bombing School at Clermont-Ferrand for five weeks and wasthen assigned to the 166th Aero Squadron at the front. After thesigning of the Armistice the Squadron was moved forward with theArmy of Occupation, being first assigned quarters at Joppecourt,then at Luxembourg, and later at Treves, Germany, where it re-mained until its return to the U.S. in April, 1919. Their time wasspent in single flight, in practice formation, and in aerial photog-raphy, in order to be prepared for further action if the peace nego-tiations failed. During a regular formation flight, on April 2, an aircollision occurred involving four of the machines, three of whichfell to the ground, three men being killed, and one drowned inthe Moselle River. Lieut. Nichols was killed in this accident atKordel, a few miles from Treves, and was buried at the StadtCemetery at Treves with his companions. Brother in Service: Charles L. Nichols, Jr., private, 34th Ma-chine Gun Squadron, 76th Division, Camp Devens. (162)
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HENRY BRIGGS First Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A., Ninety-Sixth AeroSquadron, First Day Bombardment Group Son of Charles P. and Gertrude (Russell) Briggs of Lexington,Mass.; was born in Lexington on Jan. 26, 1896. He was educated atthe Lexington High School, and at Harvard College, class of 1918.He attended the Officers Training Camp at Plattsburg, in 1916,and belonged to the Harvard R.O.T.C. He enlisted in the Air Service at Cambridge, Mass., on July 7,1917, and was assigned to the Ground School at M.I.T., where heremained from Aug. 13 to Oct. 6, 1917. He was then ordered toMineola, N.Y., where he was stationed from Oct. 14, to Oct. 27.He proceeded overseas, arriving in Liverpool on Nov. 10. He continued his training in France: at Issoudun from Nov. 17,1917, to Jan. 8, 1918; at the Aerial Gunnery School, Cazaux, fromJan. 12 to Feb. 7; at Issoudun, from March 6 to April 1; at Tours(preliminary training) from April 2 to July 3; at Issoudun (secon-dary training) from July 15 to Sept. 6; and

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