New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (1919)
Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 344
er on that flight, said: Lingardis the most wonderful pilot I ever rode with. He flew exactly over thecentre of the submarine. The bomb dropped within a few feet of the 1 Special Mechanic Howard, an expert on Liberty motors (which he tested as they were in-stalled), had flown with pilots of every… … ERIC LINGARD submarine. If the bomb had functioned, the submarine would have beendone for. (Signed) P. B. Eaton Captain of Engineers, U.S.C.G. Commanding Lingard, with Ensign E. M. Shields, assistant pilot, and E. H.Howard, observer, was over the U-boat fourteen minutes afterbeing ordered out for…
Biography · Aeronautics · World War, 1914-1918
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