"The dapper, mustached graduate of Amherst College had been a law student at Harvard University before he enlisted as a Private in the Aviation Section of the U.S. Signal Corps. His stops along the way also included M.I.T., Mineola Field and Issoudon. His law training got him sidetracked from flying for much of his A.E.F. service as he was assigned as an Air Service supply officer at Tours, France. Prior to the Armistice, however, he escaped his desk job and returned to the cockpit, ferrying planes from England to the continent. Before being invited to enlist in the Polish adventure, Shrewsbury and [his fellow volunteer] Crawford were about to embark on an automobile tour of Europe, financed largely by the latter's backlog of pay which had accrued during his German imprisonment."
Excerpt from page 23 of the excellent book "Flight of Eagles: The Story of the American Kosciuszko Squadron in the Polish-Russian War, 1919-1920," by Robert F. Karolevitz and Ross S. Fenn. Brevet Press, Inc., Sioux Falls, Douth Dakota: 1974.
Excerpt from page 23 of the excellent book "Flight of Eagles: The Story of the American Kosciuszko Squadron in the Polish-Russian War, 1919-1920," by Robert F. Karolevitz and Ross S. Fenn. Brevet Press, Inc., Sioux Falls, Douth Dakota: 1974.
"The dapper, mustached graduate of Amherst College had been a law student at Harvard University before he enlisted as a Private in the Aviation Section of the U.S. Signal Corps. His stops along the way also included M.I.T., Mineola Field and Issoudon. His law training got him sidetracked from flying for much of his A.E.F. service as he was assigned as an Air Service supply officer at Tours, France. Prior to the Armistice, however, he escaped his desk job and returned to the cockpit, ferrying planes from England to the continent. Before being invited to enlist in the Polish adventure, Shrewsbury and [his fellow volunteer] Crawford were about to embark on an automobile tour of Europe, financed largely by the latter's backlog of pay which had accrued during his German imprisonment."
Excerpt from page 23 of the excellent book "Flight of Eagles: The Story of the American Kosciuszko Squadron in the Polish-Russian War, 1919-1920," by Robert F. Karolevitz and Ross S. Fenn. Brevet Press, Inc., Sioux Falls, Douth Dakota: 1974.
Excerpt from page 23 of the excellent book "Flight of Eagles: The Story of the American Kosciuszko Squadron in the Polish-Russian War, 1919-1920," by Robert F. Karolevitz and Ross S. Fenn. Brevet Press, Inc., Sioux Falls, Douth Dakota: 1974.
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COL HQ ARMY AF AIR JA USA WWI & II
