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Harold James Brow (1894-1982), distinguished aviator, test pilot, and naval officer. See: riahof.org/field-of-accomplishment/military/us-navy/comma... dmairfield.com/people/brow_hj/index.html www.findagrave.com/memorial/52135838/harold-james-brow

Harold, a son of Willis Huntington Brow and Louisa Adelaide Wade, went on active duty as a member of the Rhode Island Militia in 1917, the day World War I was declared. Following ground school training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall of 1917, he reported to the Pensacola Naval Air Station in January 1918 for flight training. Brow served as a flight instructor in Pensacola and at the Naval Air Station in Miami.

In 1923 he established the first world speed record for the U.S. Navy at Mitchel Field, Long Island, in a Curtiss racing plane. For this he holds the Diplome de Record issued by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale in Paris

He was one of the earliest carrier pilots, serving on the first carrier, the USS Langley, on which he made the first night carrier landing. Following carrier duty he commanded the VP-4 Patrol Squadron at Pearl Harbor and later served as Wing Commander of the Cruiser Scouting Squadrons in the Battle Fleet.

In 1947, he retired from the U.S. Navy as a commander and lived in Pensacola, Florida, from that time. He died at age 87 and was buried with military honors at Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola.

James Howell Cummings, Jr. (May 1, 1895 - December 4, 1941), Naval Aviator No. 377. See: ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/27365/1/044_13.pdf Cornell Alumni News, Vol. XLIV, No. 13, December 18, 1941, Page 14

WA-'18 JAMES HOWELL CUMMINGS, JR., December 4, 1941, in Philadelphia, Pa., after a long illness. He entered Arts in 1914 from Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, Pa.; left in April 1917, to enlist in the Navy and served until May 1919, at Bayshore and Miami, Fla., as a lieutenant in Aviation. He joined the John B. Stetson Co., hat manufacturers, in 1919; became assistant secretary in charge of fur purchases in 1924, secretary in 1935, and vice-president in 1938. He was a director of the John B. Stetson Co., Ltd., of Canada and of the Stetson Hospital, Philadelphia. Delta Kappa Epsilon, Mummy Club.

DELTA KAPPA EPSILON FRATERNITY - The Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly / The Deke Quarterly DKEQ, LX, #2 (May 1942), p. 48

James Howell Cummings, Jr., Delta Chi ‘18 We learned with deep regret of the death of James Howell Cummings, Jr., ‘18, which occurred December 4, 1941, in Philadelphia. He was 46. Jim studied Arts and Sciences at Cornell, had his college career cut short by World War I in which he served as a lieutenant in the Naval Air Corps. He received a war degree in 1920. He was a hat manufacturer with John B. Stetson Co., Philadelphia, lived at Buttonwood Farm, Berwyn, Pa. He married Isabella Wanamaker in 1921, and leaves two children— James H., Jr., 16, Isabella, 19.

See also: www.findagrave.com/memorial/91500511/james-howell-cummings

George Fowler Miller, Naval Aviator No. 1517.