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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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He was educated at the Stone School,Boston, and at Harvard College. He was coxswain of the Bostoninterscholastic crew, 1912-14; a member of the Stone crew, 1915;and of the Harvard freshman four-oared crew, 1916. He enlisted at the Charlestown Navy Yard, as Machinists Mate,2d class, and was stationed at Pensacola, Fla., Sept. 6 to Nov. 26, 1917. He was later transferred to Student Officer, and completedwork at the Ground School, M.I.T., Feb. 16, 1918. He qualified as a Naval Aviator in May, 1918, and was ordered toPensacola, Fla. He was commissioned Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., June 12, 1918. From May to Aug., 1918, he acted as Instructor to the 6t)iSquadron at Pensacola. On Aug. 3, 1918, he was made DivisionCommander, 6th Squadron, and on Dec. 23, 1918, he was com-missioned Lieut, (j.g.). Lieut. Mitchell, on Jan. 28, 1919, was made 6th Squadron Com-mander, and on Feb. 20, Commander of the Navigation School atPensacola. He was ordered to inactive duty, March 12, 1919, atPensacola, Fla. ( 350 )
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JOHN MATTHEW MILLEE Ensign, U.S.N.R.F. Son of John Matthew Miller and Fannie (Paddock) Miller, ofWellesley, Mass.; was born at Tacoma, Wash., June 3, 1896. Hewas educated at the Kent School, Kent, Conn. He enlisted at Boston, Mass., July 23, 1917, and was assigned tothe Naval Aviation School, M.I.T. He was subsequently trained atthe Naval Air Stations at Hampton Roads, Va.; Pensacola, Fla.;and Rockaway Beach, N.Y. He was commissioned Ensign, March 16, 1918. On the cessationof hostilities he was ordered to inactive service, and on Dec. 15,1918, was appointed to the Post-Office Department, Aerial MailService, as manager of the Philadelphia Field, and later of the MailField, at Belmont Park, Queens, N.Y. Ensign Miller comes from a family notable for its military record:one ancestor, Charles Fanning, was at Valley Forge; another, Na-thaniel Fanning, was second in command to John Paul Jones, onthe Bonhomme Richard; a third, William Bradford Whiting, was onthe staff of Commodore Perry in th

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