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Kent Weekly (SS/DSV) (DBF), EMCS
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Chevalier, Godfrey DeCourcelles (Naval Aviator #7), LCDR.
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Contact Info
Last Address Norfolk, VA
Date of Passing Nov 14, 1922
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
LCDR Chevalier was the first US Naval Aviator to land a plane on an Aircraft Carrier - October 26, 1922
Other Comments:
Writing about a flight with Ensign Godfrey DeC. Chevalier, Arthur Ruhl of the New York Tribune wrote, "he turns an aeroplane into a sentient being as blithe and carefree as himself! We have been to another world and back [and] he still seems a little apart and resplendent, touched by the radiance of that thin, upper ether."
1913-1914, US Naval Academy Annapolis (Faculty Staff)
