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7015 ^[[insertion]] ID Milling Biog Q1972-81 [[/insertion]]

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WAR DEPARTMENT.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER.
WASHINGTON.
[[/preprinted]]

April 1, 1913.

From: Office Chief Signal Officer.

To: 2d Lieut. Thos. DeW. Milling, 15th Cavalry, (through Commanding Officer, First Aero Squadron, Signal Corps, Texas City, Texas.)

Subject: Congratulations.

1. It is desired to acknowledge receipt of your telegrams notifying this office of your highly successful flights from Texas City to San Antonio and return, with Lieutenant Sherman as a passenger, during which flights exceeded any distance heretofore made in a non-stop, cross-country flight in this country.

2. The Chief Signal Officer of the Army takes this occasion to express his appreciation of your skill, courage, and endurance, and hopes that your flights may prove to be an incentive for similar remarkable flights by all "Military Aviators."

[[signature]] George O. Squier [[/signature]]
Brigadier General, C.S.O.

1st Ind.
Hq. 1st Aero Squadron, Texas City, Texas, April 4, 1913 - To Lieut. T. DeWitt Milling, 15th Cavalry,  First Aero Squadron, Texas City, Texas.

[[signature]] AS Cowan [[/signature]]
Captain, Signal Corps, Commanding.

Transcription Notes:
unknown signature is George O[[wen]] Squier. was brigadier general from 1907 - 1917. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Owen_Squier