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[[stamped]] FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE [[/stamped]] 

fund to which all members of the group contributed according to their means. Curtiss JN-4 training planes were used. Meyer was commissioned First Lieutenant there in 1916. At this time he also flew for and obtained Expert Aviator Certificate No. 70.

When the United States entered World War I this group became the first reserve squadron. Meyer went on active duty in April, 1917 with the Personnel Section of the Signal Corps. He was sent overseas in July with the First Instruction Squadron to serve as instructor and field commander at the Third Aviation Instruction Center at Issoudun, France. There he worked with French teams and flew single seater fighter planes, most of which were Nieuports.

In March, 1918 Meyer served with the R.N.A.S. at Dunkirk. Later he joined the 97th and 103rd Pursuit Squadron, acting as pursuit pilot and flight leader. The 103rd was the former LaFayette Escadrille, with the 3rd Wing, under the First Army. On August 18, 1918 Meyer was involved in a serious crash while flying as a passenger in a DH-4 plane with Lt. Blair Thaw. They hit some unseen telegraph wires at full speed and Thaw was killed in the accident. Meyer was seriously injured and was hospitalized for several months. This was the only flying accident of his career. In the hospital following his accident, Meyer was assigned Red Cross nurse, Miss Katherine Thaw, who was closely related to Lt. Blair Thaw, and she later became Mrs. Cord Meyer. From this union there were four sons, three of whom are still

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