Abstract Photographic Prints that have been digitized and placed on the DAMS and Flickr. They have been assigned a 09 Series Number. Image from the Henthorpe collection. Arthur Henthorpe was an American railroad engineer, who went to France during WWI to help out with the war effort. About the photos, he wrote in 1977, “…they were taken by French aviators who were billeted near Souilly, Meuse, where I switched cars nights [during] the fall and winter of 1917. These aviators were wonderful guys and...

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Fred H. Morlan, born July 28, 1883, enlisted as a Sergeant in the U.S. Air Service on May 16, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois. He was sent to March Field pilot school and tested to become a pilot on July 12, 1920. Morlan was then stationed in France with the Advanced American Expeditionary Force for the duration of World War I