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Lt. Col. Charles Raymond Blake, USAF (Ret)

RIAHOF — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:39:05 +0000

Blake was born on November 8, 1897 in Westerly and graduated in 1916 from Westerly High School, he was the star center on the football team and a member of the track team. After a semester of college in Boston, he volunteered for the American Ambulance Service in January 1917 before the US entered the […]

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Lt. Col. Horace LeRoy Borden, USAF

RIAHOF — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 23:17:45 +0000

Lieutenant Colonel Horace LeRoy Borden, US Air Force (1892-1951), was a World War I Aerial Observer, WWII Training Squadron Commander, & Cold War Support Squadron Commander. He was born April 25, 1892 in Portsmouth, attended Moses Brown School and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1914. He enlisted in the Army, and earned his commission in […]

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LCDR Godfrey DeCourcelles Chevalier, USN

RIAHOF — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:33:16 +0000

LCDR Godfrey DeCourcelles Chevalier, USN, Aviation Pioneer (1889 – 1922) Providence-born Chevalier graduated from the Naval Academy in 1910. On July 12, 1916, he was launched from the first catapult designed for shipboard use, aboard USS North Carolina. In 1917 Chevalier was assigned to duty in Europe. He commanded the US Naval Aeronautic Station in […]

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John Bayard Chevalier

RIAHOF — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:58:45 +0000

John Bayard Chevalier (1887-1955) was born in Providence on January 3I, 1887. His family moved to Medford, MA where he attended high school. He graduated from Harvard with the class of 1908, and went to work for Standard Oil Company. He spent the next three years in Bombay, and from 1912 to 1917 he was […]

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Captain Archibald H. Douglas, USN

RIAHOF — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:06:08 +0000

Captain Archibald H. Douglas, USN (1885-1978) Captain Douglas graduated from the Naval Academy in 1908. He was designated as a Naval Aviator in June of 1918, and saw combat duty in France with the Northern Bombing Group. His aviation career included actions in two World Wars and command of three different aircraft carriers. He first […]

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Antoine Gazda

Rich Cayer — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:26:32 +0000

Antoine Gazda was an Austrian count, a race car driver, and a World War I fighter ace (on the losing side), but he spent World War II in Providence, living in suite 1009 of the Biltmore Hotel. The work he performed here in Rhode Island was considered so crucial to the Allied war effort that […]

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