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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the M.I.T., when he was sent to Pensacola, Fla., for flying training.He was commissioned Ensign, Dec. 27, 1917. In Jan., 1918, hesailed overseas, and was stationed at Great Yarmouth, Eng., wherehe was attached to the 228th Squadron, 73d Wing, R.A.F., and en-gaged in patrolling and scouting over the North Sea from Jan. toJuly 1,1918. For some time he was detained in the Naval Hospitalwith an attack of influenza. On Aug. 1 he was detached from the British Service and sent tothe U.S. Naval Air Station at Lough Foyle, Ireland, where he re-mained as Squadron Commander until Jan. 1919. He was commis-sioned Lieut, (j.g.), Oct. 1, 1918. On April 7, 1919, Lieut. Teulonwas placed on the inactive service list at Washington, D.C. He wascited for bravery while stationed at Pensacola, for risking his life byswimming out into the bay to rescue some Government property.In April, 1918, he was recommended for promotion for the goodwork performed in hunting the German submarines in the NorthSea. ( 272 )
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A DETACHMENT OF FIFTEEN AVIATORS United States Naval Reserve Flying Corpsat Roehampton, London, EnglandDecember, 1, 1917 These fifteen Americans (the officer in the centre is an Englishman) en-tered the U.S. Service as Seamen, 2d Class, U.S. Naval Reserve, early in1917. Standing — Left to right Eugene I. Wolfe, Baltimore, Maryland Alfred Gardner, Garden City, New York Ralph Hawthorne Norris, Chelsea, Massachusetts Max J. Baehr, St. Louis, Missouri Donald H. Merrill, Cambridge, Massachusetts R. L. Piper, Jr., Tyrone, Pennsylvania George Dana Anderson, Somerville, Massachusetts Albert A. Bailey, Norfolk, Virginia Thomas R. Punnett, New York, New York Seated — Left to right Addison C. Burnham, Jr., Newton Centre, Massachusetts Thomas E. McCracken, Brooklyn, New York Philip J. Barnes, Minneapolis, Minnesota English Officer, London, England N. J. Learned, Elmira, Neio York Joseph Warren Homer, Jr., Brookline, Massachusetts Harrison S. Goodspeed, Grand Rapids, Michigan August 20th, 1917

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