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            <text>Unknown, but did attend VPI during the 1912-1913 school year.</text>
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&lt;li&gt;87 Aero Squadron to 16 April 1918&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;872 Aerop Squadron to 19 June 1918&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;AS Flying School at Mather Field in California to 15 October 1918&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;817 Aero Squadron to Discharge&lt;/li&gt;
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        <name>1927 "Virginia Polytehnic Institute in the World War" booklet</name>
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            <text>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ohio Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, World War, 1917-1918; pg. 639&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/items/62834e04-4638-49b8-ae9a-9baa914ad090" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;The Bugle, 1913 yearbook, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Blacksburg, Virginia), pg. 121.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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