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Manual for a Morane-Saulnier Type AI airplane, February 1918. The manual originally belonged to Dardenne Allyre, the French mechanic who is mentioned in a memo in Folder 7.

Air Service Institute membership card for Lieutenant Hamilton Coolidge, 1918.

Newspaper clipping of a eulogy for Quentin Roosevelt, circa 1918. Written by Reverend Endicott Peabody (1857-1944), an American Episcopal priest and founder of Groton School, which was attended by many members of the Roosevelt family.

Identification photograph of Hamilton Coolidge, circa 1918.

Letter to Commanding Officer, 3rd Aviation Instruction Center, from 1st Lieutenant Hamilton Coolidge, March 28, 1918. Letter was written in an effort to retain Corporal Louis Dardenne, a French mechanic working at the Instruction Center. One typed…

Memorandum to Lieutenant Colonel Kilner from 1st Lieutenant Hamilton Coolidge, April 26, 1918. Advises the commanding officers to retain the services of French mechanics Garandet Marcel and Dardenne Allyre. One typed page.

Letter to Hamilton Coolidge from Douglas Campbell, May 20, 1918. Describes some of the recent air battles that Campbell was involved in while flying with the 94th Aero Squadron at the front. Includes typed transcription. Three handwritten pages and…

Special Orders No. 147, Headquarters Third Aviation Instruction Center, May 30, 1918. Orders a large group of men to proceed from the 3rd Aviation Instruction Center to Orly, France, where they will report to the Commanding Officer for active duty at…

Special Orders No. 147, Headquarters Third Aviation Instruction Center, May 30, 1918. Orders a large group of men to proceed from the 3rd Aviation Instruction Center to Orly, France, where they will report to the Commanding Officer for active duty at…

Office Memo No. 139, U.S. Air Service Paris, American Expeditionary Forces, June 2, 1918. 1st Lieutenant Hamilton Coolidge is relieved from his duty as Transfer Pilot and is assigned to the Airplane & Motor Division to act as an Assistant Test…