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Title: Ellington 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
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Subjects: Air bases--Texas--Houston Flight training--Texas--Houston
Publisher: (Houston, Tex.) : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Rice University, Fondren Library
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dets were Cook, Gilcrest, James. Gelwicks, Mather, Peterson,Searle, Calef, Ralston, Parmer, Davies, Scheffield, Baez, Markel, Nelson, Hollingsworth. Williams. Par-son, Tanner, Braun, Parker, Nolan, Hanson, Melick, Mason, Holmes, Bowles, Johnson, Grethen. Collins,and Ernst. As stated, many of these boys battled gloriously somewhere in space. Some paid the penalty. Capri-cious fate dealt a cruel hand with others, and some are still at the field. The first fatality -occurred in January, when Toby Carroll crashed near Genoa. Practically all of the cadets were commissioned in January. From then on Ellington became the peer of flying fields. The various stages were started and thecadet went through an exceedingly intensive training program before he sprouted his wings. Captain Earned arrived on December 7 and became commandant of cadets. Captain Lamed is. per-haps, the best-known officer at the field, as he has come into contact with both cadets and officers. Page 5) (ELLINGTON FIELD—1918
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Somewhere in Space ELLINGTON FIELD—1918) ( Page 6 When Col. Curry was assigned for overseas duty, Major McDonnell became Commanding Officer.Major McDonnell was a daring airman, and a splendid executive officer. The field seemed to grow almostdaily. It was during Major McDonnells regime that the full bombing course was outlined and carried out.It consisted of both the theoretical and practical bombing work that put Ellington in the first class as a fieldof progress. Additional land was taken over for bombing work. The actual dropping of explosive bombs began inApril. When Major McDonnell was sent across, Major Frank was made Commanding Officer. It was underhis direction that the field grew in efficiency and progress. Many innovations were introduced and carriedout. Perhaps the biggest demonstration ever tendered a Commanding Officer was given Major Frank whenhe left on November 11. The airdrome was a sea of ships. It was during May, 1918, that San Leon was founded, and it was recogni

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