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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nly, soyou see you can get along pretty well without seeing land. . . . Am Cap-tain of a ship of my own now, her name is Sea Scout Zero 39 and shehas S S Z 39 in enormous letters on the envelope. . . . Have been for five hours without seeing anything except gray sea belowand gray fog all around — and have come home when it was so thick thatI could nt see the station a quarter of a mile off — just had to findthe beach, then find the town I knew, then follow roads and railways abouta hundred feet off the ground until I got to the station. On Sept. 8, 1918, he wrote from East Fortune, where he had beenmade 3d Officer of the R 29: Skipped all intervening types of ships and have gone from the smallestto the largest ship in the service. The CO. of my ship is a peach of a boyand Im all happy. It seems funny to go to bed a thousand feet up in theair! But very nice. . . . We do patrols of one or two days usually. . . . Previous to this, his Commanding Officer had written on Aug. 17:( 282 )
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JOSEPH WARREN HOMER, Jr. Group Headquarters, Royal Air ForceWarsash, Hants My dear Ensign Homer, It is with much regret that you leave this Command to go to biggerships. However, it is all for your good, and that is the only consolationthat I have personally. During the time you have been under my com-mand at Polegate and the Mooring-out Stations you have set a very highexample in all-round efficiency in anti-submarine patrols and you aredestined to do big things, I think, before this war is over. Au revoir, andthe best of good luck go with you. I am Yours very sincerely FraserLt.-CoL, R.A.F. On Sept. 20, Homer wrote from East Fortune to Lieut. W. A.Edwards, U.S.N., Aide for Aviation, Grosvenor Gardens, London,saying: I am getting a good deal of experience in the handling of the Rigid, butMajor Thomas thinks that I could learn more of the construction bygoing for short periods to other stations devoted entirely to constructionalwork; especially to Barlow, where the new R 34 is buildin

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