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English: Observer David Clendon Hale (1894 - 1977), U.S.N. Air Service, Two Hundred Fourteenth Squadron, R.A.F. Son of Davis Campbell and Elizabeth (Sheen) Hale, of Cambridge, Mass.; was born in Longmont, Col., Aug. 18, 1894. He graduated from Phillips Andover Academy in 1913, and from Amherst College, S.B., 1917. He belonged to the track team at school and college. He enlisted in the U.S.N. Air Service at Boston, Mass., on June 5, 1917, and was assigned to the Ground School of Naval Aviation at M.I.T. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps at Taliaferro Field, No. 1, Fort Worth, Tex., and was sent overseas to England, on March 1, 1918. He completed his training in night bombing at the R.A.F. Officers’ Night Flying School at Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, where he passed a thirty-two days’ course on May 7, 1918. He was later ordered to London, and attached to the 214th Squadron, R.A.F., one of the R.A.F. Independent Air Squadrons, which was shortly ordered to St. Inglevert,France. He qualified as Sub- Lieut., R.A.F., and Observer on June 26, 1918. He saw service at the French front from July 9, 1918, flying Handley-Page bombing machines, and taking part in raids on Ostend, Bruges, Zeebrugge, and the various German aerodromes in Belgium, during the summer. On Aug. 15, 1918, while attached to an American Squadron, he was observer in the first (official) American night bombing plane to cross the lines on the western front, en route to a raid on the Ostend docks. While he was carrying out a similar raid on Zeebrugge on Aug. 22, Observer Hale’s machine crashed and he was slightly wounded. During the autumn of 1918 the 214th Squadron made a number of closely concentrated raids in connection with army operations in the lines, bombing railroad junctions and ammunition dumps during the retreat from Belgium. At the time of the Armistice, Hale was stationed at Maria Aeltre, Belgium. From there he wrote that the most interesting experience of all was entering the city of Ghent on the day of its release from the Germans, and receiving the welcome of the people of all ages and conditions. He was honorably discharged on Jan. 28, 1919, at Hampton Roads, Va.

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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s onOstend, Bruges, Zeebrugge, and the various German aerodromesin Belgium, during the summer. On Aug. 15, 1918, while attachedto an American Squadron, he was observer in the first (official)American night bombing plane to cross the lines on the westernfront, en route to a raid on the Ostend docks. While he was carry-ing out a similar raid on Zeebrugge on Aug. 22, Observer Halesmachine crashed and he was slightly wounded. During the autumnof 1918 the 214th Squadron made a number of closely concen-trated raids in connection with army operations in the lines, bomb-ing railroad junctions and ammunition dumps during the retreatfrom Belgium. At the time of the Armistice, Hale was stationedat Maria Aeltre, Belgium. From there he wrote that the most in-teresting experience of all was entering the city of Ghent on theday of its release from the Germans, and receiving the welcome ofthe people of all ages and conditions. He was honorably discharged on Jan. 28, 1919, at HamptonRoads, Va. ( 100 )
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GEORGE CLARKE WHITING First Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A., Forty-Third Pursuit Squad-ron, R.A.F.; One Hundred Forty-Eighth Pursuit Squad-ron, U.S.; Flight Commander Son of Walter Rogers and Gertrude (Clarke) Whiting; was bornin Boston, Mass., Jan. 28, 1894. He was educated at the StoneSchool, Boston, and Harvard University, class of 1917. He rowedon the crew at school and at college, and was a member of theUnion Boat Club crew. In 1916 he was instrumental in formingthe Harvard Flying Corps, with the result that twenty under-graduates and two members of the graduate committee receivedtraining at flying schools and became licensed aviators. On April 17, 1917, he enlisted in the Aviation Section, SignalCorps, at New York, and trained at Miami, Fla., and GroundSchool, Austin, Tex. On Aug. 17, 1917, he sailed overseas with oneof the first detachments of forty-eight aviators, picked fromAmerican flying schools for training in the foreign fightingschools. He arrived in England Sept. 1, and was at

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