to fly down the West Coast, across Panama, and up the Atlantic Coast in an amphibian. He also had his own aviation school at the Hadley Airport, where he performed in air shows. During one of his exhibitions in 1932, his airplane broke up but he parachuted to safety. Despite having 10,000 flying hours behind him, in April 1943 he was back in aviation school. He returned to service as a Lieutenant Commander in the U. S. Navy during February 1943; he flew transport planes. He eventually attained the rank of rear admiral in the Naval Reserve. He retired to Florida in 1958; he died there on 6 January 1979. See also List of World War I flying aces from the United States References Bibliography Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920 Christopher F. Shores, Norman L. R. Franks, Russell Guest. Grub Street, 1990. , . American Aces of World War I. Norman Franks, Harry Dempsey. Osprey Publishing, 2001. , . American World War I flying aces Aviators from New Jersey 1979 deaths 1898 births