Special Order No. 176 (extract), Headquarters Signal Corps Aviation School, Wilbur Wright Field (Ohio), July 1, 1918. Relieves a number of men, including Floyd W. Shepard, from duty at Wilbur Wright Field, Ohio and orders them to Langley Field,…
Special Order No. 150 (extract), Headquarters Love Field (Texas), May 15, 1918. Discharges seven men, including Floyd W. Shepard, from the Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps, Flying Cadets to accept commissions in the Signal Reserve Corps, Aviation…
Special Order No. 137 (extract), Headquarters Love Field (Texas), May 22, 1918. Relieves twelve men, including Floyd W. Shepard, from duty at Love Field, Texas and orders them to Camp Dick, Dallas, Texas. One typed page.
Special Order No. 131 (extract), Headquarters Love Field (Texas), May 16, 1918. Appoints the seven men from Special Order No. 150, including Floyd W. Shepard, as second lieutenants in the Aviation Section. Three typed pages.
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.…
Photograph of Captain Harry Gwynne's Nieuport 24bis aircraft, known as "The Flying Fish," circa 1918. The aircraft is painted with scales, fins, and eyes to resemble a fish.Inscription on verso: "Nieuport. Signal Corps negative #12471."Stamped on…
Letter from Curtiss Aviation School, June 5, 1917. The school certifies that Sergeant Hamilton Coolidge received 1206 minutes of flying instruction, passed the Preliminary Flying Test and is ready to take the Reserve Military Aviators Test.
Certificate of Graduation for Hamilton Coolidge from the United States Schools of Military Aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 14, 1917.