Victor Chapman
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Born in 1890, Victor Emmanuel Chapman was the son of a Harvard University professor of literature with a home along the Hudson River in New York. His grandfather was the president of the New York Stock Exchange, and he was descended from the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Very soon after Germany and France went to war in 1914, Victor Chapman enlisted in the French Foreign Legion and spent the next 12 months as an infantryman. By August of 1915, however, he had advanced into the School of Military Aviation and from there into the Escadrille Americaine. He was killed June 23, 1916, shot down near the French town of Beaumont as he came to the aide of other flyers. His body was never recovered.
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Video with Victor Chapman at 2:15. |
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