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Official emblem on Army plane (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded July 2024
Allen_00025_3 from SDASM Archives uploaded January 2021
Meyer Image Royal Air Force dirigible R-34 at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2017
Col. A. Miller, Lt. E.C. Kiel, Sgt. F.K. McKee (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded May 2017
Col. A. Miller, Lt. E.C. Kiel, Sgt. F.K. McKee (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded May 2017
Rohlfs & his Curtiss "Wasp" (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded May 2017
Franz Schell Album Image from SDASM Archives uploaded April 2017
Through the uncharted heavens she blazed the trail -- "Blimp" R-34 at Mineola from The Library of Virginia uploaded April 2017
Com. Scott just off R-34 (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded March 2017
R-34 (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded March 2017
R-34 (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded March 2017
R-34 (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded March 2017
R-34 [blimp] (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded March 2017
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[Field work with gas??] (LOC)
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B-59 said:
See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/33621453785/
Com. A. K. Atkins, Com. H. T. Dyer, Maj. Jack Davis, Com. L. H. Maxfield (LOC)
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B-59 said:
Commander Arthur K. Atkins was the head of the aviation section of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, s.
- The sun., May 09, 1919, Page 2, col. 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1919-05-09/ed-... and
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, 18 April 1919, page 1, col. 1
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B-59 said:
Arthur Kennedy Atkins (1881 - 1964)
prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=930928
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swanq said:
The Aircraft Year Book of 1920
books.google.com/books?id=ruYEAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA283&l...
shows Commander Atkins (bottom of page 283) and Commander Dyer (top of page 284) as in the Bureau of Steam Engineering.
At the top of page 283, Maxfield is described as Assistant Lighter-than-Air Division - Naval Aviator. -
B-59 said:
H. T. Dyer is Horace Tyler Dyer. In 1909, he married Nathalie Lydecker, s. NYT, October 8, 1909
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02E6DF1630E7...
A photo of her is in the Evening star., March 21, 1920, Page 9, Image 47
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1920-03-21/ed-...
Horace Tyler Dyer died in 1968, aged 84. From his obituary:
"Mr. Dyer was a 1907 graduate of the Naval Academy and had served through 1923 with Bureau of Engineering Aeronautics. He also was on extensive sea duty and was naval attache with the American Embassy after World War I in London."
The Capital from Annapolis, Maryland, December 27, 1968 · Page 9
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B-59 said:
L. H. Maxfield is Louis Henry Maxfield (1883 - 1921)
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57196722
navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?c...
He was killed when the airship R38/ZR-2 collapsed near Hull, England, s. The herald., October 06, 1921, Image 13 (with photo)
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064020/1921-10-06/ed-...
See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R38-class_airship