|
| Service Photo |
Service Details |
|
|
|
Last Rank
Lieutenant Commander
|
Last Primary NEC
131X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Pilot
|
Last Rating/NEC Group
Line Officer
|
Primary Unit
1922-1922, USS Langley (CV-1)
|
Service Years
1910 - 1922
|
|
|
| Last Photo |
Personal Details
|
|
|
Home State
Rhode Island | |
|
Year of Birth
1889 |
| |
This Military Service Page was created/owned by
Kent Weekly (SS/DSV) (DBF), EMCS
to remember
Chevalier, Godfrey DeCourcelles, LCDR.
If you knew or served with this Sailor and have additional information or photos to support this Page, please leave a message for the Page Administrator(s) HERE.
|
| |
Contact Info
|
Home Town
Not Specified |
Last Address
Norfolk, VA
|
|
Date of Passing
Nov 14, 1922 |
|
Location of Interment
Not Specified |
Wall/Plot Coordinates
Not Specified |
|
|
Last Known Activity
Not Specified
|
| |
Other Comments:
LCDR Chevalier was Naval Aviator #7
LCDR Chevalier was the first US Naval Aviator to land a plane on an Aircraft Carrier - October 26, 1922
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 with the radiance of that thin, upper ether.
|
| |
|
|
|
Last Updated:Jan 19, 2010 |
| |
| |
|
|
