New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (1919)
Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 144
n France, attached to the famous British Third AeroSquadron. He had the distinction of being the first American offi-cer to fight with the Royal Flying Corps, and was the first of the150 of his Squad to bring down an enemy machine. While withthe R.F.C. he was under the well-known Capt. Bell, of… … LLOYD ANDREWS HAMILTON a German explosive shell, and at once avenged his Captains deathby shooting down the enemy observer and pilot in their machine.The day before the well-known Von Richthofen was killed Lieut.Hamilton was in the flight that fought the famous flying circusand engaged Von…
Biography · Aeronautics · World War, 1914-1918
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