. New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . 1917, he enlisted in the at Boston, Mass.;trained at , and later at Pensacola, Fla. He was sent over-seas in April, 1918, having received his commission as Ensign inFeb., 1918. He trained in France until June, at Moutchic-Lacanau,Gironde. He was then sent to Italy to train for night bombing withCaproni machines, at Malpensa. Ensign Palmer was brevetted inItaly in July, 1918, and was made First Pilot in the same finishing his training, he was sent on a special mission, to testout and pilot a new 6
. New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . 1917, he enlisted in the at Boston, Mass.;trained at , and later at Pensacola, Fla. He was sent over-seas in April, 1918, having received his commission as Ensign inFeb., 1918. He trained in France until June, at Moutchic-Lacanau,Gironde. He was then sent to Italy to train for night bombing withCaproni machines, at Malpensa. Ensign Palmer was brevetted inItaly in July, 1918, and was made First Pilot in the same finishing his training, he was sent on a special mission, to testout and pilot a new 600-horse-power Caproni bombing-machine,ordered by the In this machine he flew from Milan over theAlps to Paris. The flight was made in seven hours, actual flyingtime, with landings at Turin, Lyons, Dijon, and Paris. From Parishe was ordered to the Northern Bombing Group, Field A. He was killed in an accident at , France, on Sept. 14,1918, and was buried in the Military Cemetery at Calais, France. Married, March 23, 1918, Dorothy Keniston. [ 300 ]. WILLIAM PENN WHITEHOUSE, Second Lieutenant, ; Chief Pilot, Naval AmStation, Paimboeuf, Fkance Son of Eobert Treat and Florence (Brooks) Whitehouse; was bornin Portland, Me., on Aug. 9, 1895. He graduated from HarvardCollege in 1917. He volunteered for Naval Aviation at the Charlestown NavyYard on April 16, 1917, and was at once assigned to the DirigibleTraining Camp at Akron, Ohio. After six months training, he wasgraduated as a balloonist and Dirigible Pilot, being among the firstsix officers qualified for that service in America. He received hiscommission as Ensign on Oct. 31, and in Nov., 1917, was orderedoverseas. He was stationed at Rochfort-sur-Mer, France, where he re-mained for two months, and from there he was transferred toPaimboeuf on the south side of the Loire River, where the largestlighter-than-air station on the coast of France was situated. Therehe organized the first meteorological we
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