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MILLING, T. DEWITT, BRIG. GEN. USAF. BIOG FILE - FOLDER NO.1 ITEM NO.2 A

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
NATIONAL AIR MUSEUM 
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FACTS for “WHO’S WHO IN AMERICAN AERONAUTICS”

Compiled by “AVIATION
AND AIRCRAFT JOURNAL”

To be published weekly and later in book form.

[[underlined]]Name(in full)[[/underlined]]: Thomas DeWitt Milling.
[[underlined]]Date of birth[[/underlined]]: July 31, 1887. [[underlined]]Place of Birth[[/underlined]]: Winnfield, La.
[[underlined]]Parents’ names[[/underlined]]: [[underlined]]Mother[[/underlined]]: Ida Roberts. [[underlined]]Father[[/underlined]]: Robert E. Milling.
[[underlined]]Date of marriage[[/underlined]]: - - - - [[underlined]]Wife’s maiden name[[/underlined]]: - - - 
[[underlined]]Education[[/underlined]]: [[underlined]]Public schools[[/underlined]]: Franklin, La.
[[underlined]]Colleges[[/underlined]]: United States Military Academy.
[[underlined]]Degrees[[/underlined]]: - - - - 
[[underlined]]General Business and Professional History[[/underlined]]: United States Army Officer.
Cadet, U. S. Military Academy, June, 1905 to June, 1909.
2nd Lieutenant, 15th Cavalry, September, 1909 to April, 1911.
On duty with Aviation Section, Signal Corps, as 1st Lieutenant, Captain and Major, to August, 1917.
Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel, Air Service, to April, 1920.
Captain and Major, Air Service, to date.
[[underlined]]Aeronautical activities, including flying experience, in chronological order[[/underlined]]:
On continuous aeronautical duty since April, 1911.
Received instruction in flying at Wright School, Dayton Ohio, 1911.
Assisted in extablishing First Army Aviation School, College Park, Md., 1911.
Instructor in flying, 1911, 1912, and 1913.
Entered International Aviation Meets, Boston and New York, 
1911, broke world’s endurance record, carrying two [[symbol in pencil]] X with a circle around it [[/symbol in pencil]] [[pencil notation]] Sept, 1911- P[[/pencil notation]]
passengers; also won Tri-State Race, one of the longest
cross-country events at that time.
Successfully conducted tests in the observation of artillery
fire from aeroplane, using both radio and dropped messages,
at Fort Riley, Kansas, 1912.
Served with the First Aviation Detachment, stationed at 
Texas City, Texas, for expected Service in Mexico, 1913.
Established a new American Air-Service distance and endurance
record, with passenger, by making a non-stop flight to 
San Antonio, Texas, distance 220 miles. Return flight 
made in same manner, 1913.
Officer in charge of Flying Training, Army Aviation School,
San Diego, California, 1913.