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Howard C. Knotts 2L., of Springfield, Ill., has been elected president of the University Aeronautical Society. Knotts, who served during the war as a pilot in the 17th Squadron, is one of the 66 American aces, with a total of seven enemy planes to his credit. He received among other decorations the British Distinguished Flying Cross and General Service Medal and the Belgian Croix de Guerre...
Howard Rogers Clapp, in whose memory the scholarship is established, attended the Plattsburgh Camp and the School of Military Aeronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1917, and after a subsequent course of training at Mineola became a member in 1918 of the 22nd Aero Squadron, A. E. F. He was killed in action over Yonca, France, November...
...eight-line dispatch from New York brings the news that twenty vessels of the Navy's Suicide Squadron" have reached that port. For over two years they have spent their days and nights in foreign waters sweeping the seas of more than fifty thousand mines that the commerce of the world might pass in safety. This was the work that called for perhaps the sheerest courage of the war. Ploughing undramatically through the dangerous, fog-swept North Sea, constantly in danger of being wiped out by the deadly, unseen mine or the cowardly submarine, they made it possible...
...tumult and the shouting of the war have died away. Tales of stark daring fall on ears that have heard hundreds of such tales before. The seamen of the "Suicide Squadron" will not get, and doubtless do not expect, the welcome that greeted those who returned earlier. Yet the world will be eternally, though silently, grateful to those men who, forsaking the paths of safety and even the comparative ease of showing bravery in the heat of battle, have quietly gone about their hazardous task. Theirs, unassuming and unadvertised, is the highest glory...
Chester Robinson Tutein, Eng.14-17, 185th Aero Squadron, First Pursuit Group, A.E.F., was killed in an aeroplane accident at Bar-le Duc, France, on November...