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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ue and which enables the crafty Hun to make circles around me.However, our entire escadrille changes to Spads in ten days, and there isno better machine out than that. . . . Aviation is a great game which re-quires perfection in all a mans faculties, and I am trying to keep myselfin the best physical shape possible, one false step might mean the end. . . .I have become a fatalist as every aviator does, and am prepared to acceptwhatever awaits me. For two months and a half, late in 1917, he flew at the front,his first flight over the German lines being as a member of Esca-drille 150, Groupe de Combat 16. On one occasion while travellingover the lines alone, three German planes attacked him, but heeluded them and returned in safety. He was located in the Alsace-Lorraine section. In May, 1918, he received furlough from France,and then entered the U.S. Service, of the Marine Flying Corps. Hewas sent to Florida as 2d Lieut. He was honorably discharged onaccount of nervous breakdown. ( 36 )
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* WALTER DAVIS RHENO First Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A., Escadrille 80, LafayetteSquadronDied of pneumonia, Oct. 10, 1918Son of Simeon L. and Clara (Pratt) Rheno; was born in VineyardHaven, Mass., on Feb. 26, 1895. He was educated in the publicschools of Vineyard Haven. In the latter part of 1916, he aban-doned the automobile business in which he was engaged in NewYork City, sailed for France, and enlisted in the Foreign Legion,in Paris, on Dec. 19, 1916. In Jan., 1917, he applied for transferto the Aviation Service, and in Feb. started his training at theEcole dAviation Militaire at Buc, near Versailles, continuing atPau and at Avord. On May 10, 1917, he received the French Mili-tary License. After perfection air work in the one-man combatmachine known as the Fighting Chasse, the fastest of fightingmachines in use at the front, he was ordered to the war zone onJuly 1, 1917. He was sent to Verdun on July 16 to join fightingSquadron N 80 of the Groupe de Combat. On his arrival at Ver-dun

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