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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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on leading colored troops. JOHN A. LANGLEY Second Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A. Son of John William and Annie Josephine (Dow) Langley; wasborn at Melrose, Mass., June 25, 1896. He graduated from theMelrose High School. After a years work at the Junior MilitaryTraining Camp at Plattsburg, N.Y., he joined the 1st Prov. Offi-cers Training Regiment at Plattsburg. He enlisted at Boston,Mass., April, 1917; was ordered to Plattsburg in May, and latertransferred to the Ground School at M.I.T., graduating Dec. 3,1917; he was sent to the Primary Flying School at Waco, Tex.,where he completed the course qualifying him for pursuit work,and was commissioned 2d Lieut., March 9, 1918. He was assignedto the Pursuit School, Gerstner Field, Lake Charles, La., and oncompleting the course was made Flying Instructor. He was trans-ferred to Carlstrom Field, Fla., as Stage Commander and In-structor. Later was Instructor at Dorr Field, Arcadia, Fla., andwas engaged in making special cross-country flights. ( 446 )
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CHARLES CLARK MARSHALL Second Lieutenant, A.S.A, U.SA. Son of John Knox and Sabina (Adamson) Marshall; was born atBrookline, Mass., Jan. 21, 1889. He attended the University Pre-paratory School, Ithaca, N.Y., and graduated from Cornell in 1911.Prior to the declaration of war, he served for five months in 1916as a first-class private in Battery A, 1st Mass. Regt F.A., N.G.,and went to the Mexican Border. He enlisted at Boston, Mass.,Nov. 1, 1917, in the Aviation Section, Signal Enlisted ReserveCorps. He attended the Army School of Military Aeronautics atPrinceton, Dec. 8, 1917, to Feb. 16, 1918. March 13, 1918, he wasassigned to Taliaferro Field, Fort Worth, Tex., for a course inprimary flying, from which he graduated May 8, 1918, qualifiedto act as a gunnery pilot. He was classified Pursuit Pilot and com-missioned 2d Lieut., R.M.A., May 23, 1918. He was ordered toGerstner Field, Lake Charles, La., for an Advanced Pursuitcourse, July 20, 1918, and transferred to Rockwell Field, SanDieg

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