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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 24 Sep 2019 8:01 p.m. PST |
Grand-nephew of President William Howard Taft, David Sinton Ingalls had been a pre-med student at Yale University in 1916 when he developed an interest in flying. He and 11 other Yale students met with Navy officials and obtained authorization to form what became known as the "First Yale Unit." As civilian volunteers, the young men then trained using a Curtiss Model F seaplane and were designated as a coastal patrol unit, in effect becoming a private flying militia. When Congress passed the Naval Reserve Appropriations Act in August 1916, the entire unit, then grown to 28, enlisted… link |
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