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English: Philip Dudley Mosser, Ensign, U.S.N.R.F. Enlisted in April, 1917, at which time he was a senior at Cornell University. He entered the coast patrol, and served on a patrol boat in Long Island Sound. In Oct., 1917, he transferred to the Naval Aviation Service, and was sent to the M.I.T. Naval Aviation Ground School. Upon completion of the course there, he was transferred to the Naval Air Station, at Bay Shore, N.Y. He was commissioned Ensign, U.S.N.R.F. On May 4, 1918, he fell in his hydroplane, and his skull was fractured. He recovered from this accident, although the injury to one eye prevented him from further flying. He was subsequently appointed a ground officer, and stationed at Pensacola, Fla.

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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. Upon completion of the course there, he wastransferred to the Naval Air Station, at Bay Shore, N.Y. He wascommissioned Ensign, U.S.N.R.F. On May 4, 1918, he fell in hishydroplane, and his skull was fractured. He recovered from thisaccident, although the injury to one eye prevented him fromfurther flying. He was subsequently appointed a ground officer,and stationed at Pensacola, Fla. (Portrait on opposite page.) CHARLES B. MILLER Second Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A. Son of Nathan and Emma F. Miller; was born at Fall River, Mass.,May 14, 1889. He was educated at the Durfee High School and atPhillips Exeter Academy. He enlisted in the Air Service at Boston,Mass., on Jan. 16, 1918, and was assigned to the M.I.T. GroundSchool. He received further training at Camp Dick, Dallas, Tex.;at Carruthers Field, Benbrook, Tex., and at Barron Field, Ever-man, Tex. He was commissioned 2d Lieut., March 10, 1919, andhonorably discharged from the Service at Barron Field, Everman,Tex. March 12, 1919. ( 318 )
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RALPH TUPPER ROGERS Ensign, U.S.N.A.S., Eighth SquadronDied in Service, Jan. 8, 1919Son of George F. and Ida M. Rogers, of Roslindale, Mass.; wasborn at Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 9, 1893. He was educated at theMedford High School and at the Mass. Institute of Technology.At the high school he won honors in French. Previous to enlistinghe took a course in Aviation at the M.I.T. He was a sergeant in theBoys Brigade at Medford, and was attached to the Church Cadetsin high school. On May 25, 1918, he enlisted in U.S. Aviation, at Cambridge,Mass. He was trained at Miami, Fla., being attached to the 8thSquadron. He was then sent to Pensacola, Fla., to finish his flyingcourses. He was commissioned Ensign, and had just completed histraining when he was taken ill and died at Pensacola, on Jan. 8,1919. He is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery, Mass. Ensign Rogers worked very hard and with great enthusiasm forthe Service that he loved. He had intended remaining in Aviationafter the war, had he lived. (

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