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3 unusual facts about Hamilton Coolidge


Hamilton Coolidge

On October 27, 1918, he was killed in action, his SPAD S.XIII taking a direct hit from a German anti-aircraft shell near Grandpré, Ardennes.

Ham Coolidge and Quentin Roosevelt attended Groton School together, attended Harvard together, and served together in the U.S. Army Air Service First Pursuit Group in France.

He was one of ten Harvard undergraduates accepted from a field of forty applicants for training at the Curtiss Flying School in Buffalo, New York in July 1916.



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