Bennett, Lt. Louis and Fellow Pilot with World War I Airplane
Date:
ca. 1918
Description:
The aircraft in the picture is a Curtiss Jenny. Records show that the tail number (#1) corresponds to an aircraft that had a mishap enroute to West Virginia, and was destroyed in a crash on August 4, 1917. In this crash Cadet C.B. Lambert (of Welch, West Virginia) was killed, and Lieutenant William Frey was injured. (See newspaper Wheeling Register, August 4, 1917.)
Bennett, Lt. Louis (Center) and with Fellow Pilots
Date:
ca. 1918
Description:
Officers of the West Virginia Flying Corps, including (left to right) Lieutenant Thomas Kent, Captain Louis Bennett, Jr., and Lieutenant William Frey. They are standing in front of a Curtiss JN or "Jenny" aircraft. This photograph appeared with an article regarding the W. Va. Flying Corps in the July 29, 1917 issue of the Wheeling Sunday News on page eight of part iii.
Preparing to Start Planes at West Virginia Flying Corps Big Hangar in Beech Bottom, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1918
Description:
Preparing to start aircraft #1 Curtiss JN-4 and "grass cutter" training plane. Plane #1 was destroyed in a crash on August 4, 1917. In this crash Cadet C.B. Lambert (of Welch, West Virginia) was killed, and Lieutenant William Frey was injured. (See newspaper Wheeling Register, August 4, 1917.) Each ground crewman in the picture is about to "turn over the prop" in order to start the engines of the airplanes.
Interior of Field Hospital, German Red Cross Number 40 at Wavrin, France
Date:
ca. 1918
Description:
Postcard of interior of field hospital, German Red Cross Number 40, at Wavrin, France. This was the hospital where Lt. Louis Bennett, Jr. passed away on August 24, 1918 while his wounds were being dressed after his plane was shot down. Richard Lavril [sic] Ulffz is shown at center. Postcard came with letter from Mlle. Madelien Dallenne to Sallie Maxwell Bennett, 14 July 1919. Bennett Collection Box 3, Folder 2.
Portrait of Jarvis Offutt and Lt. Louis Bennett. At left is Jarvis Jenness Offutt of the U.S. Air Sevice, who was temporarily attached to Number 56 Aero Squadron of the R.A.F. He was killed in an accident in France, August 13, 1918. He was from Nebraska and a classmate of Bennett at Yale.
![Postcard of interior of field hospital, German Red Cross Number 40, at Wavrin, France. This was the hospital where Lt. Louis Bennett, Jr. passed away on August 24, 1918 while his wounds were being dressed after his plane was shot down. Richard Lavril [sic] Ulffz is shown at center. Postcard came with letter from Mlle. Madelien Dallenne to Sallie Maxwell Bennett, 14 July 1919. Bennett Collection Box 3, Folder 2.](/thumb/001331.jpg "Interior of Field Hospital, German Red Cross Number 40 at Wavrin, France")
