https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/001320https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/image/001320.jpgBennett, Lt. Louis and Fellow Pilot with World War I Airplane ca. 1918Air pilots, Military.World War I--Aviation--Pilots--Bennett, Louis.World War, 1914-1918--Aerial operations.Biplanes.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.)West Virginia History OnView