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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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ck; was born atChelsea, Vt., Feb. 12, 1893. He was educated at the Chelsea, Vt.,High School; Manual Training High School, New Haven, Conn.;Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H.; and at Dartmouth Col-lege, one year, class of 1915. He took part in track athletics, andplayed baseball and basket-ball. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Service in Aug., 1917, at Sandusky,Ohio. He trained at the M.I.T. Ground School, and sailed over-seas in Nov., 1917. He spent the following winter in camp at St.-Maixent; training being hindered by lack of planes. In the springand summer of 1918 he completed his training at Chateauroux,and Issoudun. He was commissioned 2d Lieut, on May 18, 1918.For a month he was assigned to motor transport service; and heserved for some time as Instructor at the Issoudun training field.While so engaged he met with a serious accident which incapaci-tated him from active service for some weeks. He returned to Amer-ica in March, and was honorably discharged on March 17, 1919. ( 206 )
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LELAND V. CLARK First Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.SA. Son of Frederick W. and Carrie E. (Vining) Clark; was born atNorth Abington, Mass., June 3,1893. He was educated in the Abing-ton public schools, and at the M.I.T. He played on his school foot-ball team; and at Technology was a member of the tug-of-war team. He enlisted on June 18, 1917, at M.I.T. Ground School, wherehe spent two months. He was then transferred to Belleville, 111., onAug. 18, 1917, where he made his first flight from Scott Field onSept. 11, 1917. He was commissioned 1st Lieut, in Jan., 1918, andsailed for overseas service on the ill-fated Tuscania, which was tor-pedoed off the Irish coast on Feb. 7, 1918. Lieut. Clark was in active service in France until the end of thewar. (Portrait on opposite page.) Grandfather in Service — A. Elliot Vining, served in the Civil War. THOMAS R. TARRANT Second Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Tarrant, of Brookline, Mass. Heentered Dartmouth College in the class of

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