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afternoon flight a bad storm was approaching.  Rather than disappoint the crowd he took off and soon encountered high winds and torrents of rain.  Unexpectedly his engines went dead, he was severely bounced around, and then a severe gust turned him completely over.  He miraculously righted the plane, regained control and made a safe dead-engine landing.

Crewdson continued exhibition work in 1916 then late that year he became a civilian flying instructor when the United States Army Signal Corps, Aviation Section, established a military flying school at Ashburn Field, Chicago.  Several other early aviators joined the group of instructors and it rapidly became an [[strikethrough]] sizable [[/strikethrough]] extensive operation.

In January 1917 the school was moved to Memphis, Tennessee, for the winter months and Crewdson remained with the group.  He continued in this service until after the Armistice [[strikethrough]] of World War I [[/strikethrough]] in December 1918 [[strikethrough]] , and during that time [[/strikethrough]] the later months of World War I he was [[strikethrough]] also [[/strikethrough]] stationed at Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, and Selfridge Field, Mount Clemens, Michigan.

After [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]] a year and eleven months in the service he resumed exhibition work and organized a group known as THE VETERAN FLYERS, an aerial circus, and started a barnstorming tour of the country, using Curtiss JENNY'S.  In March 1919 Crewdson obtained postwar civilian Pilot License No. 320.  In addition to his barnstorming Crewdson also dealt to some extent in the buying and selling of war surplus planes and [[strikethrough]] motors [[/strikethrough]] engines.

During the summer of 1922 he was located in Hot Springs, Arkansas, carrying passengers and operating a flying school.  In 1924-1925 he conducted a similar business in Iola, Kansas.  When the barnstorming days were over he became an airline pilot. [[strikethrough]] for a time. [[/strikethrough]]

After retiring from this service he established his home in Santa Barbara, California, where he later lost his eyesight.  Crewdson passed away there on 

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