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
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duating July 29, when he was ordered to Mineola, N.Y. Oncompleting his training there, he was commissioned 1st Lieut.,Dec. 17, 1917. In Jan., 1918, he sailed overseas with the 153dSquadron, and trained in France at Issoudun and at ToUrs. OnAug. 15, 1918, he was attached to the 91st Squadron, and took anactive part in the St.-Mihiel and Argonne offensives. Lieut. Bakersduties, as a long-distance reconnaissance pilot and observer, wereto secure information of enemy fortifications, ammunition dumps,troop movements, airdromes, and artillery activity, and also tophotograph the same; such missions often extended 100 miles overthe enemy lines. Lieut. Baker sailed for the U.S. in Dec, 1918, andwas honorably discharged at Garden City, N.Y., Jan. 10, 1918. *JOSEPH GERARD MURPHY Ensign, U.S.N.R.F.Died, Oct. 18, 1918 Born Jan. 29, 1897. He was educated at the Somerville HighSchool and at Boston College. He enlisted in the U.S.N.R.F.; wascommissioned Ensign. Died in Service, Oct. 18, 1918. ( 468 )
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GEORGE LOWELL ASPINWALL Second Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A. Son of William Henry and Susan (Lowell) Aspinwall; was born atChestnut Hill, Mass., Oct. 9, 1891. He attended the VolkmannSchool, and graduated from Harvard College in 1914. He thenengaged in the banking business. He attended the Officers Train-ing Camp at Plattsburg in 1915 and 1916, and was there com-missioned Capt., U.S. Infantry. Illness obliged him to retire fromthe Service, but upon recovery he enlisted in the Aviation Service,Feb. 15, 1918. On March 8 he began training at Princeton, N.J.,where he graduated June 8, 1918. On June 10 he continued histraining at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex., where he remaineduntil after the signing of the Armistice. He was commissioned2d Lieut., A.S., U.S.A., Nov. 12, 1918, and was honorably dis-charged in Jan., 1919. Brother in Service —Augustus Aspinwall, 2d Lieut., 110th Infantry, 28th Division;killed in action, Aug. 26, 1918. HAROLD WAYNE PARKER Second Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A. Born in

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