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James Norman Hall

(Hall, James Norman, 1887-1951)

 Identifier: NewEnglandaviatVol1Tick (find matches) Title: New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed Subjects: Biography Aeronautics World War, 1914-1918 Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: m the British Army, which,unknown to him, his friends in Boston had been active in securingfor him because of the illness of his father in Colfax, la. He returnedto the United States immediately, visited Iowa, found his fathermuch improved, and settled in Boston where he spent the winterlecturing and working on his book Kitcheners Mob. In June,1916, he attended the Officers Training Camp at Plattsburg, N.Y. He returned to England in July, intending to continue literarywork, but instead enlisted in the French Aviation Service on Oct.13, 1916. He trained in the French aviation schools at Buc (Seine-et-Oise), Avord (Cher), and Le Plessis-Belleville (Oise), and wasassigned to the Lafayette Escadrille. On June 26, 1917, he had anencounter with seven German airplanes, was shot through the shoul-der and lungs, and fell 12,000 feet to what seemed certain death.But fortunately he was picked up alive and taken to a hospitalnear Paris, where he soon recovered. Reports of his death reached ( 22 ) Text Appearing After Image: JAMES NORMAN HALL America, but he wrote from the hospital at Neuilly to a friendthat he was alive. When he left the hospital on Sept. 22, 1917, he returned to thefront as a pilot in the French Squadron, Spad 112. A fortnight laterhe was transferred to his old unit, the Lafayette Escadrille, withwhich he served, with the rank of Sergeant, until his transfer tothe United States Air Service. He was commissioned Captain,A.S.A., U.S.A., on Jan. 26, 1918, and was kept on active duty withthe Escadrille Lafayette which had just become the 103d PursuitSquadron, U.S.A.S. On March 29, 1918, he was assigned to the 94thPursuit Squadron as Flight Commander. He was shot down incombat on May 7, 1918, near Pagny-sur-Moselle, back of the Ger-man lines. He tells the story of this encounter in his book, HighAdventure. Again it was reported that he was dead. But on May 8, a Ger-man airman flew over the Allied lines, and dropped a note sayingthat Hall was safe. Capt. Hall returned to America shortly after, Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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James Norman Hall (22 April 1887 – 5 July 1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, a series of historical novels co-authored with Charles Bernard Nordhoff: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934), and Pitcairn's Island (1934). During World War I, Hall uniquely served in the armed forces of three Allied nations—Great Britain as an infantryman, and later France and the United States as an aviator. His wartime honors include the Croix de Guerre, the Médaille Militaire, the Légion d'Honneur, and the Distinguished Service Cross. After the war, he settled in Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure novels, many of which were adapted into films. He was also the father of Conrad L. Hall, a three-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer. (From Wikipedia)

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