Memorandum issued by the Office of Chief Signal Officer, U.S. War Department, to Marc Lagen, December 18, 1917. Notes Lagen's commission as First Lieutenant in the Aviation Section and instructs him to notify the Officer of the Chief Signal Officer…
Travel documentation for Wilbur D. Kennedy, December 1917. Includes an itemized statement of actual expenses for sea travel, documenting tips paid to various ship staff during travel from Garden City, New York, to Liverpool, England, December 4-25,…
Special Orders No. 279 (extract), U.S. War Department, November 30, 1917. Orders Wilbur D. Kennedy and others to active duty and to report to commanding officer at Garden City, New York. One typed page.
Travel form issued by the U.S. Army Transport Service, November 27, 1917. Certifies transportation for Marc Lagen from New York to France on December 3, 1917.
Order No. 127, U.S. War Department, November 21, 1917. Assigns a number of First Lieutenants, Aviation Section, Signal Reserve Corps, including Marc Lagen, to active duty. Men are ordered to report for transportation to France where they will report…
General Orders No. 94, U.S. War Department, July 16, 1917. Rescinds General Orders No. 75 and substitutes orders on the confidentiality of any information on overseas movement. Military personnel are forbidden to make public details such as…
Special Orders No. 21, issued by the Headquarters Southeastern Department, United States War Department, May 29, 1917. Orders Sergeants Hamilton Coolidge and Edmund E. Bates to be relieved from the Curtiss Aviation School and to proceed to Boston for…
Envelope from the U.S. War Department, circa 1910s-1920s. Printed with letterhead of War Department, Headquarters Eastern Department, Governors Island, New York, with handwritten label ("Personelle") on front.