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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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nt. . . .Once I had determined to get into the Army, I wanted to get into some-thing where individuality counts and it does in Aviation more than any-where else. Even if the danger is greater the value of the service is greatertoo. He trained at Avord, Pau, and Cazaux, receiving his BrevetOct. 26, 1917. He was transferred to the U.S. Service, was com-missioned 2d Lieut, on Jan. 6, 1918, and was assigned to the 94thSquadron (Major Lufberys). With this Squadron he took partin several actions. On June 2, 1918, Lieut. Davis made his lastflight. Capt. Douglas Campbell was leading the patrol whenfour of the American planes were attacked by five or six Germans.After a hot fight the Germans were driven off, but Lieut. Daviswas seen to fall in flames. He was buried near Burly Wood (Richecourt), north of Seiche-prey. (See record of Lieut. Arthur Lawrence Cunningham.) Sister in Service ■— Amelia W. Davis, in Y.M.C.A. canteen and library workabroad, from Oct., 1917, until the Armistice. ( 78)
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ARTHUR LAWRENCE CUNNINGHAM First Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A., Ninety-Fourth AeroSquadron, First Pursuit GroupSon of John F. and Mary Elizabeth (Ryan) Cunningham; was bornat Everett, Mass., Dec. 15, 1895. He prepared for college at theMedford High School, where he was valedictorian, and Major ofHigh School Battalion; he entered Harvard College in the class of1918, and was winner of Price-Greenleaf, and three other scholar-ships. On May 26, 1917, he went overseas with the Harvard AmbulanceUnit, and after a month in Paris with that organization, enlistedJuly, 1917, in the Foreign Legion, Lafayette Escadrille. He trainedfor some months at Avord, Pau, and Cazaux, and in Jan., 1918,was commissioned 2d Lieut, and assigned in Feb. to the 94thSquadron, 1st Pursuit Group, and participated in all the greatdrives. On May 7, 1918, he took the air in answer to a challenge from aGerman aviator and found five others in hiding behind clouds.Attacked by six Germans, he fought until his machine gun jammed,

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