New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (1919)
Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 216
an altitude of 9000 feet. Fortunately he was able toplane to earth in safety, although his machine was badly smashedin colliding with a barbed-wire fence. On Dec. 9, 1918, he andanother instructor had barely left Ellington Field when their en-gine stopped. In the forced landing which followed the… … CHARLES HENRY SMITH Second Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A., Ninth Aero Squadron Son of Charles E. and Albertine (Flanders) Smith; was born atNashua, N.H., April 26, 1895. He was educated at Florida Mili-tary Academy, Green Cove Springs, Fla., and at AndoverAcademy, Andover, Mass. He enlisted in the U.S.…
Biography · Aeronautics · World War, 1914-1918
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