Turner, Earl M.
survey sheet - handwritten

 

 

On front of survey:

Date of Enlistment: May 9, 1918
Military Camps to which went:
* Carnegie Institute of Technology
Units to which belonged:
* 297 Aero Squadron
Date of trip overseas: --
Service there: --
Date of return: --
Date of demobilization: Jan. 14, 1919
Honors received: --

On reverse of survey:

"Entire enlistment devoted to
experimenting, testing & developing
wireless telephone perfection in
in connection with aeroplane work,
the progress of which, in just the
duration of the war, ranged from
crude elementary experiments &
probable ideas, to thorough undisputed
knowledge and ability to send
a message anywhere on the globe,
under any weather conditions, at
the rate of 300,000,000 [metus? metres?] (186,500
miles) per second.

 

 

NOTES
18.9.2 Records of aviation schools (U.S. National Archives. Guide to
Federal Records. Records of the Army Air Forces [AAF])
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/018.html#18.9.2
-- See the 2nd to last entry in this section, "School for Radio
Mechanics, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA, 1918-19"