Smith, Kenneth R.
survey sheet - handwritten

 

 

Date of Enlistment: March 1917
Military Camps to which went:
* Palm Beach, Fla.
* Huntington, L.I. [N.Y.]
Units to which belonged:
* U.S. Naval Aviation Foreign Service
Date of trip overseas: Sept. 20, 1917
Service there:
* Aviation Patrols and night Bombing
Date of return: Nov. 22nd, 1918
Date of demobilization: Jan. 1919
Honors received:
* Croix de Guerre with palm
* Legion of Honor
* U.S. Naval Cross

 

 

NOTES
Glenn H. Curtiss 100 Years Ago (Glenn H. Curtiss Museum, Hammondsport, New
York) -- note the WWI developments and Palm Beach
http://www.glennhcurtissmuseum.org/educational/glenn_curtiss.html

United States Maritime Service Radio Training Station Huntington, Long
Island, New York (U.S. Merchant Marine Academy)
http://www.usmm.org/huntington.html

Naval Aviation Chronology 1917-1919 (U.S. Navy. Naval History & Heritage
Command) -- see the entry for Nov. 22, 1917, for information on Kenneth
R. Smith
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/avchr2.htm

World War I U.S. Navy Recipeients of the Navy Cross, P-Z (Home of Heroes)
http://www.homeofheroes.com/members/02_NX/indexes/03_ncross_wwiUSN_alphaP.html