[Heinie Schwartzel smoking]

Photograph of Heinie Schwartzel in flight gear smoking a cigarette at an airfield in Dayton, Ohio, circa 1917.

Inscription on album page: "Flying school – Dayton, Ohio."

Part of the Wilbur D. Kennedy photograph album containing six hundred and five (605) black-and-white photographs, as well as a few pieces of ephemera, circa 1917-1919. The photos trace Kennedy's military career from his infantry training in the United States to his service in France during World War I and post-war service in Germany.

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