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Born in a house 500 yards south, he attended W & L University and Y.M.!. Enlisted in the French Foreign Legion, August, 1914; incapacitated for infantry service by wounds, May, 1915. Transferring to the French Air Force, he helped found the Escadrille Lafayette. The first American aviator to down an enemy plane, May 18, 1916, he was killed in aerial combat over Alsace, Sept. 23, 1916. He is buried in France.
US 25W & 70 in Newport. Cocke County Tennessee
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