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Captain C. Def. Chandler and Lt. Roy C. Kirtland in Wright B airplane with the first machine gun (Lewis) ever fired from a plane - 1912 Photo Courtesy PhotoGallery, Pictures of Oklahoma and its People

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Charles DeForest Chandler", using the Google search engine, (6-21-11), you will find about 9,840 links!!

 

Colonel Charles deForest Chandler      This entry on the Arlington National Cemetery website offers a very nice resumι of his life and career. It includes a photograph of his headstone contributed by M. R. Patterson, October 2002.

 
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RECOMMENDED READING

BLUE RIBBON OF THE AIR THE GORDON BENNETT RACES   by Henry Serrano Villard   Product Details Hardcover: 224 pages; 1.0 x 6.5 x 9.5 inches List Price: $39.95 Publisher: Smithsonian Books (November 1, 1987) ISBN: 0874749425

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Chapter 1 THE AIRPLANE COMES OF AGE • 1908 1 Chapter 2 RHEIMS • 1909 21 Chapter 3 BELMONT PARK • 1910 53 Chapter 4 EASTCHURCH • 1911 95 Chapter 5 CHICAGO. 1912 129 Chapter 6 RETURN TO RHEIMS • 1913 169 Chapter 7 THE WAR YEARS • 1914-18 195 Chapter 8 THE LAST RACE • 1920 213 Epilogue 239 Appendix 1 251 Appendix 2 254 Notes 259 Selected Bibliography 265 Index 268

 

Brief Notes from Blue Ribbon of the Air by Henry Serrano Villard Headed by Maj. Samuel Beber, the contest committee of the Aero Club of America arrived in Chicago on 7 September. Other members were George M. Meyers, president of the Kansas City Aero Club, Capt. Charles deForest Chandler of the U.S. Army, W. Redmond Cross and Henry A. Wise Wood of New York, and Frank X. Mudd of Chicago.      Army interest in the Gordon Bennett dated back to 1912, when the acting chief of the Signal Corps, Col. George P. Scriven, traveled to Chicago to attend that year's contest and Capt. Charles Chandler, Lt. George H. Arnold, and Lt. Thomas de Witt Milling accepted an invitation of the Illinois Aero CLub to officiate at the meet. From Blue Ribbon of the Air by Henry Serrano Villard, 1987 Editors Note: I was privileged to know Henry during several years before his death. He was an fascinating companion and a lifetime friend of aviation. I heartily recommend his book to you.

 

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