Lost Eagles: One Man's Mission to Find Missing Airmen in Two World Wars

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NOTES Some of these notes are narrative in composition and designed to assist other researchers . The following abbreviations have been used throughout. NARA: National Archives Records Administration NMUSAF: National Museum of the United States Air Force kenyon roper Epigraph note. Letter to American Grave Registration Service, Quartermaster General of the Army, May 7, 1920, by Lieutenant Colonel M. F. Rethers, NARA, Record Group 65, Burial File of Kenyon Roper. 1. Ibid. 2. “Of‹cer Who Sent Aviators to Front Now Seeks Missing,” Stars and Stripes, March 28, 1919, 5. This article, available online from the Library of Congress (loc.gov), provides details of Zinn’s mission. 3. Letter to American Grave Registration Service, Quartermaster General of the Army, May 7, 1920, by Lieutenant Colonel M. F. Rethers, NARA, Record Group 65, Burial File of Kenyon Roper. 4. Personal diary and collection of Kenyon Roper, Steubenville Historical Society , Steubenville, Ohio. 5. Trevor Henshaw, The Sky Their Battle‹eld (London: Grub Street, 1995), 397–415. 6. “Of‹cer Who Sent Aviators to Front Now Seeks Missing,” 5. 7. NARA, Record Group 65, Burial File of Kenyon Roper. 8. Ibid. 9. “Of‹cer Who Sent Aviators to Front Now Seeks Missing,” 5. chapter 1 1. Frederick Zinn File, Frederick Zinn Files, Galesburg Public Library, Galesburg, Michigan. 2. Ibid. Additional validation can be found on www.ancestry.com. 3. History of the Galesburg Mill File, Frederick Zinn Files, Galesburg Public Library , Galesburg, Michigan. 4. Battle Creek Historical Society. It is important to note that Kellogg and Post 217 both have company histories available on their Web sites, although they are obviously slanted toward their own perceptions of the origins of their companies. 5. History of the Galesburg Mill File, Frederick Zinn Files, Galesburg Public Library , Galesburg, Michigan. 6. “Fred Zinn Was Native of Galesburg,” Argus, July 27, 1972; Frederick Zinn File, Frederick Zinn Files, Galesburg Public Library, Galesburg, Michigan. 7. Files on Pecos Bill, History of the Galesburg Mill File, Frederick Zinn Files, Galesburg Public Library, Galesburg, Michigan. It is important to note that the only statue in the town of Galesburg today is that of General Shafter. 8. University of Michigan, Michiganensian (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan , 1914), 128–29. 9. Frederick Zinn File, Frederick Zinn Files, Galesburg Public Library, Galesburg , Michigan; “Mainly about Folks,” Battle Creek Enquirer and News, October 12, 1941. Additional details on the Zinn family history were obtained from www.an cestry.com and various Canadian archival sources. 10. Ibid. 11. Ibid. alvin treadwell Epigraph note. Gorrell’s History of the American Expeditionary Forces Air Service, 1917–1919, NARA, Record Group 120, History of the 213th, 14. 1. Alvin Treadwell File, Poughkeepsie Historical Society, Poughkeepsie, New York. 2. History of the 213 U.S. Aero Squadron, 265, Lafayette Foundation, Fort Lupton , Colorado. 3. George Nettleton, ed., Yale in the World War (New York: Yale University Press, 1925), 296–97. 4. Alvin Treadwell, Distinguished Service Cross Citation, May 3, 1919, Lafayette Foundation, Fort Lupton, Colorado. 5. Gorrell’s History, 360. Some sources, such as Nettleton, Yale in the World War, 297–99, give Treadwell credit for this victory. 6. Gorrell’s History, 108. 7. History of the 213 US Aero Squadron, 265. 8. Nettleton, Yale in the World War, 296. 9. File notes on Alvin Treadwell, Frederick Zinn Files, NMUSAF. 10. Letter from Captain Zinn to Professor Treadwell, April 29, 1919, Frederick Zinn Files, NMUSAF. 11. Nettleton, Yale in the World War, 297. chapter 2 Epigraph note. Edward Morlae, A Soldier of the Legion (New York: Houghton Mif›in, 1916), 5. 1. Paul Rockwell, American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914–1918 (New York: Houghton Mif›in, 1930), iii–44. 2. Arch Whitehouse, The Legion of Lafayette (New York: Doubleday, 1962), ix–xiv. 218 | notes to pages 20–31 3. Rockwell, American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 8. 4. Ibid., 8–9. 5. Hugh McLeave, The Damned Die Hard (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973), 62–69; Edgar O’Balance, The Story of the Foreign Legion (London: White Lion, 1961), 146–221. 6. “Mainly about Folks,” Battle Creek Enquirer and News, October 12, 1941. 7. Rockwell, American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 8. 8. Richard Zinn (son of Frederick W. Zinn), in discussion with the author, 2007. 9. Personnel Records, Frederick W. Zinn, 1914–1918, Société des amis du Musée de la Légion étrangère, Archives of the Foreign Legion, Paris. 10. Rockwell, American Fighters...