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English: First Lieutenant Walter P. Muther, A.S., U.S.A., 147th Aero Squadron. Son of Lorenz and Louisa (Ebert) Muther, of Newton, Mass.; was born at Oak Park, Ill, March 1, 1890. He attended the Mass. Institute of Technology, graduating in 1913. On June 2, 1917, he enlisted at Cambridge, Mass., and trained at the M.LT. Ground School and at the Flying School at Essington, Pa. He was commissioned 1st Lieut., Air Service, Nov. 8, 1917. He sailed overseas from New York, Nov. 2, 1917, and continued his training at the 3d A.LC, Issoudun, France, Dec. 4, 1917, to April 15, 1918, and at the American Aviation Acceptance Park, Orly, Seine, April 15 to July 24, 1918. Lieut. Muther was then attached to the 147th Aero Squadron, 1st Pursuit Group, with which he remained until Dec. 4, 1918. With this Squadron, which did notable work at the front, he was in action at Chateau-Thierry, St.-Mihiel, and in the Argonne Forest. Lieut. Muther was honorably discharged, Feb. 17, 1919.

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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st. Lieut. Muther was honorably discharged, Feb. 17,1919. (Portrait on opposite page.) GEORGE W. TUTTLE Second Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A. Son of Dr. Walter and Anna A. (Woodbury) Tuttle; was born atExeter, N.H., April 10, 1894. He was educated at Phillips ExeterAcademy and at the Mass. Institute of Technology. He wonscholarships at Exeter, and at M.I.T. for the entire course. Heenlisted in U.S. Army School of Military Aeronautics, and trainedat U.S.A.S., Mineola, N.Y. He was commissioned 2d Lieut.,July 18, 1918, and assigned to the 48th Aero Squadron, 1st Prov.Wing, at Mineola, N.Y.; then to the 3d Prov. Squadron, ArmorersSchool, Wilbur Wright Field, Fairfield, Ohio. He was transferredto the U.S. Army Aviation School, Payne Field, West Point,Miss., where he was stationed until the end of the war. He washonorably discharged on Dec. 5, 1918, at Hoboken, N.J,Married, April 29, 1918, Edith Pelletier. Father in Service — Dr. Walter Tuttle, examining physician, Rockingham County,N.H. ( H2 )
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* EDMUND PIKE GRAVES First Lieutenant, Royal Air ForceKilled in airplane accident, Nov. 22, 1919 Son of Edmund Pike and Mary Warner (Caldwell) Graves; wasborn in Newburyport, Mass., March 13, 1891. He was educated atSt. Georges College, Buenos Ayres; Middlesex School; and Har-vard College, A.B. 1913. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force atToronto, Can., July 9,1917. In Oct. he was commissioned 2d Lieut.,winning his wings. He instructed in the School of Aerial Gun-nery at Fort Worth, Tex., until March, 1918, when he was ap-pointed Instructor of Acrobatics in the new School of SpecialFlying at Armour Heights, Toronto; where he was commissioned1st Lieut. He went overseas in Oct., 1918, and was stationed atLondon Colney, until honorably discharged in July, 1919. Hisfailure to get to the front was such a disappointment to him thathe enlisted in the Kosciuszko Squadron of the Polish Army, tofight the Bolsheviki, in Sept., 1919, and was engaged in operationsagainst them just previous to his de

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