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Memo from Cushman Hartwell, Commanding Officer of Signal Corps Aviation School, Love Field (Texas), to Floyd W. Shepard, May 16, 1918. Notifies Shepard of his appointment as a second lieutenant in the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps, Aviation Section.…

Booklet titled "The Men Who Made Brooks Field," published by the Maverick-Clarke Litho Company (San Antonia, Texas), circa 1918. The title page describes the booklet as "a pictorial history of America's Foremost Air Service United States Army Flying…

Memorandum to Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde from Major Dean Smith, August 13, 1918. Expresses admiration for Hyde's conduct in helping extricate Lieutenant Lawton B. Evans from a wrecked airplane. A clipping related to this crash is in Folder 3. One typed…

Memorandum to Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde from Major J. A. Blankenship, June 25, 1918. Confirms Hyde's commission as Second Lieutenant in the Aviation Section, Signal Reserve Corps, and requests that he telegraph his acceptance or declination. One typed…

Memorandum to Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde from Captain A. B. Lambert, October 1, 1918. Certifies requirements related to Hyde's application to the Aviation Section, Signal Officers' Reserve Corps, and instructs Hyde to report to the Army Recruiting…

Pass issued by the U.S. Signal Corps Aviation School (Love Field, Texas) to Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde, February 1918. Inscription: "Had my first ride today. JVH."

Special Orders No. 140, War Department, June 15, 1918. Announces appointment of J. V. Hyde and Howard Hiltz Jones as Second Lieutenants in the Aviation Section, Signal Reserve Corps and assigns their active duty at Love Field, Dallas, Texas, as of…

Special Orders No. 170, Air Service Flying School (Brooks Field, Texas), August 14, 1918. Assigns several officers, including 2nd Lieutenant Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde, to duty as Instructors in the Flying Department, Brooks Field, Texas. One typed…

Special Orders No. 221, Air Service Flying School (Brooks Field, Texas), October 4, 1918. Instructs a few officers, including 2nd Lieutenant Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde, to report for temporary duty to Dallas, Texas for the purpose of flying airplanes…

Special Orders No. 227, Air Service Flying School (Brooks Field, Texas), October 10, 1918. Assigns several officers, including 2nd Lieutenant Jules Verne (J. V.) Hyde, to participate in regular and frequent aerial flights. One typed page.