Identifier: NewEnglandaviatVol2Tick (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

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Oct. 31, 1918, he was officially reported Missing in action near Bantheville, after one of the most important air battles of the year. For his heroic action in this engagement he was posthumously awarded the D.S.C. Not until April 29, 1919, was the fact of his death fully established. A letter from the American Military Mission in Berlin bearing that date states definitely that Lieut. Beane was killed in action on Oct. 30, 1918, and that he was buried near the place where he fell. Capt.F. W. Zinn, of the Air Service, reported that he was buried two kilometres east of Brieulles-sur-Bar. Citations: D.S.C. For extraordinary heroism in action near Bantheville, France, Oct. 29, 1918. When Lieut. Beanes patrol was attacked by eight enemy planes (Fokker type) he dived into their midst in order to divert their attention from the other machines of his group and shot down one of the Fokkers in flames. Four other Fokkers then joined in the battle, one of which was also destroyed by this officer. (Signed) Pershing.
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ROBERT HEWINS STILES First Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A., Thirteenth Aero SquadronSecond Pursuit GroupKilled in action, Sept. 16, 1918Son of Walter F. and Annette L. (Hewins) Stiles; was born atFitchburg, Mass., Nov. 15, 1894. He attended the public schoolsof Fitchburg and graduated in 1916 from Harvard College, wherehe was prominent in many associations. He was on the editorialboard of the Crimson; its managing editor in 1915, and presidentof the board of editors in 1916. He was a member of the freshmanbaseball squad, and manager of the Varsity baseball team in 1916;also president of the freshman Mandolin and Banjo Club. Aftergraduation he became commission sales agent for a well-knowntextile firm, and was doing a very successful business at the timeof his enlistment. In the summer of 1916 he attended the Harvard Aviation Schoolat Buffalo, N.Y., where he obtained an aviators license. In June,1917, he enlisted at Boston, Mass., for the Aviation Service; trainedat the M.I.T. from Aug. 20, 1

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