Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Another Boche aviator has been accounted for by D. E. Putnam '20, according to a dispatch received from France. This latest achievement makes the third German that Putnam has shot down since his arrival on the battle front two months ago. Putnam and others of his fellow airmen in the Lafayette Escadrille, have been taking advantage on the recent mild weather on the French front and have continued their brilliant exploits by bringing down three enemy machines in all, losing none themselves...
Coincident with Putnam's feat, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., also of the Escadrille, downed two German aviators within a short time, his first victories in the air. Details of these combats have not yet been received in Paris. Both Hitchcock and Putnam have been on the battle front for less than three months and have not yet been transferred to the American Army...
According to a report received in this country from Paris yesterday, D. E. Putnam '20, of Brookline, an aviator in the French Army, shot down a German airplane in a battle on January 19. No details of the combat were given...
...Putnam was graduated from Newton High School in 1916. Last spring he went to France with an ambulance unit and after finishing his work in that branch entered the aviation service. In a letter to a friend several weeks ago, Putnam told of a 2,000-foot fall, from which he escaped with nothing more serious than two broken teeth...
...Frederick Howard Stephens, Dorchester. Orator James Waterhouse Angell, Hallowell Davis, Chicago, III. Brookline. Lowell Brentano, William Lloyd Prosser, Orange, N. J. Minneapolis, Minn. Henry Simon Walker, Scarborough, Me. Ivy Orator. Sewell Nightingale Dunton, M. A. Hawkins, Circleville, Ohio. Chicago, III. William Maurice Silverman, Cambridge. Poet. Odist. Thacher Nelson, Alfred Putnam, Winnetka, III. Philadelphia, Pa. William Allis Norris, Joel Townsley Rogers, Milwaukee, Wis, Washington, D. C. Chorister. John King Berry, Jr., Bernard Jonathan Mattuck, Providence, R. I. Brooklyn, N. Y. Milton Tenney MacDonald, Worcester...