Fletcher Ladd McCordic 1st Lieut. 88th Aero Squadron A. E. F. 1891-1919. A Tribute
Chicago: Privately Printed, 1921. Octavo, brown cloth with gilt lettering and squadron emblem on front cover, 90 pp., frontispiece, 19 plates. Spine ends a little rubbed, hinge slightly split but firm, otherwise a very good copy. First Lieutenant Fletcher Ladd McCordic was born on December 1st, 1891. In the autumn 1916, he entered the Wright Flying School at Hempstead where he graduated in due course and received his pilot's license from the Aero Club of America. In January 1917, the Aviation Officer's Reserve Corps was established and Fletcher Ladd McCordic enlisted in this corps and was given the rank of sergeant before being sent to the training camp at Memphis, Tennessee where he remained until June 1917 where he learnt both technical ground work and flying. When the United States joined the war, Fletcher Ladd McCordic was sent to Issoudun (now in the Centre Val de Loire region) in France. He served in the 88th Aero Squadron A. E. F. On March 1st, 1919, McCordic took off the aerodrome at Trèves, Germany, flying a Fokker D VII died in a crash as he was flying over a forest just east of Waldweiler. Item #2818
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