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Family, friends, and others (see notes added to photo) greeting US Navy aviators Lt. Louis A. Kloor, Jr., Lt. Walter T. Hinton, and Stephen A. Farrell at Pennsylvania Station, New York, on January 14, 1921. Kloor, Hinton (a veteran of the Navy's Curtiss NC-4 transatlantic expedition), and Farrell crewed a US Navy hydrogen-filled free-flight balloon (BuNo A-5598) on a training flight that departed from Naval Air Station Far Rockaway, Long Island, on December 13, 1920. The intention was to land the balloon in northern New York State the following day. However, due to unexpected weather, the balloon would end up landing almost 20 miles north of Moose Factory, Ontario, near Hudson Bay, resulting in an epic story of survival and rescue taking place over two weeks in the Canadian wilderness. This brief description only barely scratches the surface of this story, and what subsequently followed. See: "Three Men In A Balloon," The Literary Digest, Vol. LXVIII No. 5, Whole Number 1606, January 29, 1921, Pages 44-48. Ordeal - Lost and facing death in a remote frozen forest - by Bob Martin Wikipedia - Walter T. Hinton (1888-1981) See also: New York Times - "Airmen's Clash Amazes Friends" - January 21, 1921 "Magic Casements" - VITAPHONE VARIETIES - OBSERVATIONS ON FILM, MUSIC & IMAGERY OF THE PAST - February 17, 2007 Here's a link to one contemporaneous photo (among others) of the occasion, belonging to the Hagley Digital Archives: Hagley Museum Digital Archives - Lammot du Pont, Jr. Aeronautical Collection - "Wives at Pennsylvania Station to Greet Naval Airmen on Their Arrival in New York" Here's another photo of the occasion in the LoC's Bain Collection: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/42867125710/

See also photo in The evening world., January 14, 1921, Wall Street Final Edition, Image 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1921-01-14/ed-... Louis Alexander Kloor (1898-1971) www.findagrave.com/memorial/119030529/ Alexandra Flowerton was the fiancée of L. A. Kloor, but they did not marry, s. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/07/12/10702026... She was the sister of actress Consuelo Flowerton (www.imdb.com/name/nm0283223/), s. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/07/16/10981275..., and an aunt of Nina Foch, actress (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Foch). Anna Louise Kronholm Farrell, former concert singer, died in 1942, aged 55, s. August 17, 1942 - The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York · Page 7 www.newspapers.com/newspage/52701551/ Eugene George Farrell (1905-1996) prabook.com/web/eugene_george.farrell/548624 www.findagrave.com/memorial/101782640/

Walter Hinton (1888-1981) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7965149 Louis Alexander Kloor (1898-1971) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99411257 Stephen Andrew Farrell (1878-1946) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99411504

Thanks for the added details, Richard Norton . We will add some of the info from these comments to the online record.

This is a group of men at Port Washington , Long Island in July, 1916 who came to train at the aviation school there to become a unit of the Aerial Coast Patrol. The story from the New York Evening World., July 15, 1916: 90 H.P. FLYING BOAT SOLD TO F. T. DAVISON Young Aviator Gets First Unit of New Aerial Coast Patrol. The first step toward establishing an aerial coast patrol for this country was taken to-day when F.T. Davison ordered a ninety horsepower Curtlss flying boat, according to an announcement Issued by the Aero Club of America. Robert Lovett, Allen Ames, H. B. Sturtevant, G.D. Winan and Mr. Davison reported at the Wanamaker Aviation School, Port Washington, L.I. to begin training as aviators. The unit is to contain twelve men, four to act as pilots, four as observers and four as anti-aircraft gunmen. Two experts In wireless telegraphy also will be added. The full equipment of the body Is to include four seaplanes and a complement of motorboats and automobiles for anti aircraft work. President Wilson and the War and Navy Departments have given their consent to a plan for a coast patrol worked out by the Aero Club and a bill appropriating $1,500,000 for its maintenance was Introduced in the Senate a few days ago." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1916-07-15/ed-... Other sources reported that Davison was the son of H.P. Davison of J.P. Morgan & Co., and Robert Lovett as the son of Robert S. Lovett of the Union Pacific RR. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20B14FF355B17... The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of July 16, 1916 reported that David McCollough (note spelling, elsewhere it is David H. and D.H. McCulloch) was the aviator in charge of the school. fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20E... This seminal early event in the history of American aviation is covered in Chapter 6 of "Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power." by Marc Wortman. That book identifies these men more accurately: Robert Abercrombie Lovett (September 14, 1895 – May 7, 1986) was the fourth United States Secretary of Defense, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Lovett John Martin Vorys, later a Congressman from Ohio en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martin_Vorys Rear Admiral Erl Clinton Barker Gould (1895-1968) www.millionairesunit.org/index.php?option=com_content&... Albert D. "Al" Sturtevant (1894-1918) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_D._Sturtevant Frederick Trubee Davison (February 7, 1896 - November 14, 1974) was an American World War I aviator, Assistant US Secretary of War, Director of Personnel for the Central Intelligence Agency, and President of the American Museum of Natural History. Artemus Lamb Gates (November 3, 1895 – June 14, 1976) was an American businessman, naval aviator, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air in charge of naval aviation efforts in World War II. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemus_Gates John V. Farwell III (1895-1992) www.millionairesunit.org/index.php?option=com_content&... articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-03-20/news/9201260003_1_...http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=farwell&GSfn=john&GSmn=v&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=52131027&df=all& Allan Wallace Ames (1893-1966) www.millionairesunit.org/index.php?option=com_content&...http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=ames&GSfn=allan&GSmn=w&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=49000003&df=all&

Thanks, artolog, for providing all the information and resources. I haven't been able to get to the bottom of whether David H. was "McCulloch" or "McCullough." I have also seen some "McCullough" on other sites, though Bain seems to have stuck with "McCulloch"--as in this close-up In any case, we'll add information when we next update the description.

McCullough again:

Barbara (LOC P&P) Barbara, as Art has found, "McCullough" is frequently used as the spelling for the aviator in question. However, after spending (too much?) time connecting the dots, I am certain that "McCulloch" is the proper and correct spelling. David Hugh McCulloch, Sr. was born to parents William Turbett McCulloch and Lucretia J. McManigal in Pennsylvania on April 23, 1890, and he passed away on September 20, 1955. He was married to Helen Wheeler Fair, and the children I have been able to identify thus far are: Virginia Fair McCulloch (who would marry in 1946 (and divorce in 1956) Bertrand L. Taylor III, then marry (and later divorce) renown diver Peter Robin Gimbel (of Gimbel's Department Stores) in 1960; Alice Fair McCulloch (married to Frederick Hemsley Gillmore in August 1933); Helen Fair McCulloch, and David Hugh McCulloch, Jr. Although the preponderance of evidence points toward "McCulloch" as the proper spelling, that evidence comes primarily from (not necessarily accurate) newspaper society notices of impending marriages, noting "father David H. McCulloch" as the noted Naval aviator, with homes in both Port Washington, Long Island and Palm Beach, Florida. What settles the issue is the short life of David Jr. David Hugh McCulloch, Jr.'s birth is announced on Page 13 of the June 30, 1922 issue of The Evening News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (note, "Mrs. J. Emery Fleisher" is McCulloch, Sr.'s mother, Lucretia, who married Fleisher some time after her first husband William passed away at the age of 41 in 1894): Mrs. J. Emery Fleisher has received the announcement of the birth of a grandson, David Hugh McCulloch, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. David Hugh McCulloch, of New York City, June 24. Mr. McCulloch, the father, is the famous aviator who was on the Ill-fated N-3 which floundered several years ago near the Asores on its trans-Atlantic flight If you go to Find-A-Grave, two headstones stand next to each other at Woodlawn Cemetery in Palm Beach, Florida. One is for David Hugh McCulloch, Jr. "June 24, 1922 - December 7, 1922" See: www.findagrave.net/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=96138161 The adjacent headstone is for David Hugh McCulloch, Sr. "April 23, 1890 - September 20, 1955" See: www.findagrave.net/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=96138063 It is curious and somewhat disheartening that there is no notation of his service (and achievements in aviation), nor of his family, other than the immediate proximity of the grave of his son who died at too young an age. Similarly, it is surprising that there isn't any information (obituaries, notices, etc.) reporting or noting his own passing in 1955 that can be located thus far (perhaps as more publications are digitized, this is will change?). However, with the knowledge that McCulloch was born in Pennsylvania (see also the story about the historic flight of the Curtiss NC Flying boats to the Azores on page 36 in the May 4, 1919 Brooklyn Eagle - "Lt. David H. McCulloch, considered one of the best pilots in the Naval Aviation Corps, has been in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps since 1917 when he was 27 years old, having been born in Pennsylvania in 1890."), combined with the notice of his son's birth, and the aforementioned grave site information, we can say for a certainty that the proper spelling of the name is "McCulloch", and for the first time as far as I am aware, we can say with a reasonable certainty that he was born on April 23, 1890 and passed on September 20, 1955.

Thanks, TVL1970, for all the research and deduction! I see that in the updated catalog record on our site ( www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005022296/ ) we favored "McCulloch" (with an alternative "McCullough" there for retrieval purposes, but with a question mark). Alas, we entered the wrong middle initial in the process. We'll adjust further, indicating that "McCulloch" is most likely the accurate spelling.

To the left side of the frame is Claude William Haman (1904-1943) - USNA 1926, he'd perish from burns received while fighting a fire in the Bachelor Officers' Quarters at US Naval Air Station, Argentia, Newfoundland, on January 12, 1943. See: genealogytrails.com/cal/placer/military/ww2articlespg1.html From July 1937 until May 1940, Commander Haman served consecutively with Patrol Squadron 1 and Patrol Squadron 8 (later re-designated Patrol Squadron 24) attached to Aircraft Squadrons based at Pearl Harbor, T.H. The following month he reported for duty in command of Observation Squadron 2, with additional duty in the USS TENNESSEE and commanded that squadron until January 1942, shortly after the outbreak of World War II. Commander Haman then had charge of fitting out Patrol Squadron 93 and assumed command upon its commissioning, January 5, 1942. In October of that year, he reported for duty as operations officer on the staff of the Commander, Patrol Wing 7. Commander Haman died on January 12, 1943 as the result of burns received in a fire in the Bachelor Officers' Quarters, Naval Operating Base, Argentia, Newfoundland, and for his heroism at that time was posthumously awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal with the following citation: "For heroic action and outstanding devotion to duty during a fire in the Bachelor Officers' Quarters, Naval Operating Base, Argentia, Newfoundland, on January 12, 1943. Discovering a fire in the north end of the corridor, Commander Haman, with utter disregard for his own personal safety, ignored a nearby exit through which he could have escaped, seized a hand fire extinguisher, and rushed toward the center of the flames in an attempt to check the fire which endangered the officers under his command. As he staggered from the blaze, fatally burned, his only concern was for the safety of his men. His great personal valor and spirit of self-sacrifice were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service." Commander Haman was also posthumously awarded the Purple Heart Medal. In addition to the Navy and Marine Corps Medal and the Purple Heart Medal, Commander Haman was also entitled to the American Defense Service Medal, Fleet Clasp, and the World War II Victory Medal. His next of kin, his widow, Mrs. Nina Perry Haman, lives at 71 North Marlborough Street, East, Greenwich, Rhode Island. [Prepared 12-27-1946. Biography courtesy of the Department of the Navy, Naval History and Heritage Command]

Robert C. Brixner (1903-1957) - USNA 1927, at center, commanded Patrol Squadron 44 (VP-44) and its Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina flying boats during the Battle of Midway. See: vp44goldenpelicans.com/VP-44%20Ford%20Island%20&%20Mi...