W. D. LAMONT

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ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "W. D. LaMont using the Google search engine, (9-3-03), you will find about four links. Among the most interesting are the following.

NAVAL AVIATION IN 1913      In January, 1913, the naval aviation detachment was transported by a Navy collier to Guantanamo for its first operation with the fleet. The Cuban camp was commanded by Lieutenant Towers, subject to orders from the commander in chief of the fleet. Numerous interesting and practical tests were made of the employment of planes in cooperation with ships and many of the fleet officers became more or less familiar with aviation. At this time several notable flights were made along the Cuban coast and the usefulness of aircraft as scouts in discovering the approach of a distant fleet and in detecting mine fields and submarines were amply and practically demonstrated. With the return of the fleet to the United States after the winter maneuvers, the aviation detachment was transferred back to Annapolis again and continued under command of J. H. Towers.      In 1913 Lieut. (Junior Grade) J. D. Murray, United States Navy, Second Lieut. William McIlvaine, United States Marine Corps, First Lieutenant A. A. Cunningham, United States Marine Corps, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Saufley, Lieut. (Junior Grade) M. L. Stolz, and Ensign W. D. Lamont joined the ranks of naval aviators. In June of this year Lieutenant Bellinger hung up a world's seaplane record for altitude by ascending to 6,200 feet in 45 minutes in a Curtiss seaplane. First Lieut. B. L. Smith, United States Marine Corps, by starting from the water, alighting on the land, and then returning to the water, made the first successful flight in an amphibian or combined land an water aircraft in the summer of 1913. This item was extracted from United States Navy Department, Bureau of Aeronautics, Technical Note No. 18, Series of 1930 A HISTORY OF U.S. NAVAL AVIATION by Capt. W.H.Sitz, USMC United States Government Printing Office Washington: 1930      You can access and read the entire article by clicking on the title above.

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" Naval Aviation Chronology 1898-1916"      Once on this page of the Naval Historical Society website, which you can access by clicking on the title above, you will find two entries which refer to W. D. LaMont. You may find it convenient to use the "FIND" buttons for "LaMont" to locate the entries on the page.

 

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