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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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Army CorpsPilots course on Dec. 1, and was honorably discharged on Dec.7, 1918, at Langley Field. LINCOLN ALVORD Second Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.SA. Son of Ralph F. and Harriet Woodbury (Lincoln) Alvord; wasborn at Newton, Mass., Jan. 31, 1896. He was educated at theNewton High School, and at Harvard College, class of 1918. Hetrained with the Harvard R.O.T.C. He enlisted at Boston Nov. 3, 1917, in U.S. Army Aviation, and trained from Nov. 3 to Jan. 12, 1918, at M.I.T. Ground School. From Jan. 12 to April 8, 1918, hewas at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex. He was commissioned 2dLieut. April 8, 1918, and was stationed from April 8 to May 13,at Camp Dick, Dallas, Tex.; May 13 to Sept. 29,1918, at EllingtonField, Houston, Tex.; and Sept. 29, 1918, to Jan. 7, 1919, at Talia-ferro Field, Fort Worth, Tex. He graduated as a bombing-pilot.He was honorably discharged at Taliaferro Field, Tex., on Jan. 7,1919. Brother in Service — Clark Alvord, Section 604, U.S. Army Ambulance Service,A.E.F. ( 442 )
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THOMAS CARSON CURTIS Second Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A. Son of Harley B. and Susan D. (Carson) Curtis; was born at New-tonville, Mass., May 6, 1894. He was educated at St. GeorgesSchool, Newport, R.I. He enlisted Dec. 1, 1917, at Cambridge,Mass., and began training at once at M.I.T., finishing Dec. 21.From Jan. 5 to Feb. 9, 1918, he trained at U.S.A.S.M.A., Ithaca,N.Y., and from Feb. 28 to April 12, at Camp Dick, Dallas, Tex.From April 13 to July 27, Flying Cadet at Eberts Field, Lonoke,Ark. He was commissioned 2d Lieut., R.M.A., A.S.A., July 27, 1918. He was Flying Instructor at Eberts Field, July 27 to Dec.24, 1918. Honorably discharged at Eberts Field, Dec. 24, 1918.Dec. 6, 1918, Lieut. Curtis was put in charge of a flight of threeships, proceeding from Eberts Field, Lonoke, Ark., to Scott Field,Belleville, 111.; returning Dec. 21. The object of the flight was tofurther public interest in flying and to look over the country as apossible air route between Little Rock, Ark., and St. L

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