. New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . ROBERT LEWIS FISHER Second Lieutenant, , Son of Samuel H. and Margaret (Sargent) Fisher; was born at NewHaven, Conn., June 22,1898. He was educated at the Taft School,Watertown, Conn.; the Thacher School, Ojai, Cal.; and at YaleCollege. He enlisted in the Air Service at New Haven, Conn., on Jan. 19,1918, and was assigned to the School of Military Aeronauticsat Princeton, ; after completing the course there he was sent toPayne Field, West Point, Miss., for flying instruction. Subsequentlyhe was ordered t
. New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . ROBERT LEWIS FISHER Second Lieutenant, , Son of Samuel H. and Margaret (Sargent) Fisher; was born at NewHaven, Conn., June 22,1898. He was educated at the Taft School,Watertown, Conn.; the Thacher School, Ojai, Cal.; and at YaleCollege. He enlisted in the Air Service at New Haven, Conn., on Jan. 19,1918, and was assigned to the School of Military Aeronauticsat Princeton, ; after completing the course there he was sent toPayne Field, West Point, Miss., for flying instruction. Subsequentlyhe was ordered to Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, for a coursein Pursuit Pilots gunnery. He was commissioned 2d Lieut, onAug. 20,1918. He was discharged from the Service at Garden City,, Dec. 12, 1918. [ 196 ]. JOHN W. CRAIG Second Lieutenant, , Son of Arthur E. and Adelaide May (Starbird) Craig; was born atPortland, Me., July 9, 1895. He was educated at the PortlandGrammar and High Schools, , and at Cornell University. Heenlisted from Cornell in June, 1917, and was sent to the OfficersTraining Camp at Plattsburg, Later he transferred to Avia-tion, and was assigned to , Cambridge, Mass., for ground-school work. He was trained in primary flying at Park Field, Mem-phis, Tenn., where he remained from Jan. 1 to June 1, 1918; and inadvanced flying at Ellington Field, Houston, Tex., where he re-mained from June, 1918, to March, 1919. On completing the courseat Ellington Field he was commissioned 2d Lieut, in April, 1918,and held as Instructor in Night Bomb Raiding. Lieut. Craig had several narrow escapes from death. On July 9, 1918, while flying a new ship at Ellington Field, the engine refusedto function at an altitude of 9000 feet. Fortunately he was able toplane to
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