Roy Herbert Warner ( – ) was an American farmer, navy sailor, army soldier, army pilot, airmail pilot, Royal Air Force pilot, and one of ten recipients of the Airmail Flyers' Medal of Honor. Early years Warner was born March 13, 1895, in Vulcan, Michigan. He was the second of three children born to Walter H. Warner of Novesta, Michigan, and Sarah J. Little of Ontario, Canada. Warner had two sisters—Lela, the elder and Eliza, the younger. In 1900 Warner's family was in Brainerd, Minnesota, living with his father's sister and her family while his father worked as a log scaler. None of the children were in school at that time. In 1910 his family moved to Denver, where his father worked as a gold miner. In 1911 his father went to Mexico to mine for gold; the family stayed in Ada, Oklahoma. By mid-1917 Warner was working for himself as a farmer in Winfield, Montana, when he registered for the draft. Military Warner served in both World War I and World War II. He enlisted on April 25, 1918, from Winifred, Montana. He served on board the destroyer as a Fireman 3rd class in the European Theater during World War I. Upon returning to the Brooklyn Navy Yard on December 28, 1919, Warner transferred to the as an Oiler. By January 21, 1920, Warner was in the Brooklyn Naval Hospital. He was honorably discharged on February 24, 1920. Warner joined the United States Army Reserve and learned to fly after being trained by Utah aviation pioneer Alexander Raymond "Tommy" Thompson, and made his first solo flight in November 1926 at Salt Lake City, Utah. Career During a brief employment for the Aero Corporation of Utah (ACU), Warner and fellow ACU pilots Howard Sweet and Raymond L "Ray" Peck (owner of the largest garage in Salt Lake City at the time) were invited to Ogden municipal airport on June 30 to participate in the Air Jubilee and the arrival of their first airmail. Warner and Peck would go on to work for Tommy Thompson when he opened his Flying Service, and Peck, as co-owner, would continue to operate that business after Thompson died in an airplane crash in 1937. Trouble in the sky On a personal flight from Salt Lake City to Reno on July 15, 1928, Warner ran into some trouble and was forced to make an emergency landing.