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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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n of John F. and Mary A. (Sullivan) Shea, of Somerville, Mass.;was born at Springfield, Mass., Nov. 25, 1896. He was educated atthe Somerville High School and at Boston College. He went to the Mexican Border with the National Guard in1916, and served with that body until his transfer to Naval Avi-ation in July, 1917. He was assigned to the Ground School, M.I.T.,in Oct., and on graduation, Nov. 20, was sent to Hampton Roads,Va., where he remained until Jan. 1, 1918. He was then ordered toPensacola, Fla., where he qualified as Naval Aviator. On May 5,1918, he was transferred to Miami, Fla., where he was com-missioned 2d Lieut., U.S. Marine Corps, June 1, 1918. He sailedoverseas July 1, and saw active service with the British First Armyfrom Aug., 1918, to the close of the war. He was attached toSquadron 9 of the Northern Bombing Group, operating in Flanders. Brothers in Service — Joseph A. Shea, Sergeant-Major, 1st Division, A.E.F.Edwin P. Shea, Private, Base Hospital 7, A.E.F. ( 232 )
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MELVIN W. COLE First Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A., One Hundred Fourth AeroSquadron, Fifth Corps, Observation Group Son of William S. and Mary A. (Wilson) Cole; was born at Boston,Mass., Feb. 28, 1893. He was educated at the Boston Latin Schooland at Harvard University. He enlisted at Boston in Aug., 1917, and was sent to M.I.T.Ground School, graduating with the class of Oct. 13, 1917. He sailedoverseas, and trained at Issoudun, France, 3d A.I.C., from Nov.,1917, till March, 1918; he was attached to the 2d A.I.C. at Tours,France, from March until June, 1918, and was commissioned 1stLieut, on May 18, 1918. Lieut. Cole was again at Issoudun fromJune till July, 1918, and again at Tours 2d A.I.C. in July.and Aug.From Sept. 7, 1918, until Dec. 31, 1918, he was attached to the 104thAero Squadron, 5th Observation Group. Returning to America, Lieut. Cole was discharged at GardenCity, N.Y., on Feb. 19, 1919. ( 234 )

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