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Contact Info
Home Town Fisher, Illinois
Last Address San Antonio, Texas
Date of Passing Sep 06, 1971
Location of Interment Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery (VA) - San Antonio, Texas
He is known as the first enlisted pilot. In 1912 while he was a corporal and an airplane mechanic he was trained and qualified as a pilot. At first the Army brass objected to it but then relented and he was promoted to sergeant. In 1917 he was commissioned and retired as a colonel in 1942.