Eugene Hoy Barksdale
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Lieutenant Eugene Hoy Barksdale (November 5, 1896 – August 11, 1926) was a noted aviator and was a First Lieutenant in the United States Army Air Service and Army Air Corps. The new Barksdale Field (now Barksdale Air Force Base) in Bossier City/Shreveport, Louisiana, was named for him on February 2, 1933.[1]
Early years
Born in Goshen Springs, Mississippi, Barksdale had one brother and five sisters. He attended Mississippi State College in Starkville for three years before leaving to enter officers training camp at Fort Logan H. Roots in Little Rock, Arkansas. He volunteered for the aviation section of the U.S. Army Signal Corps as a Private First Class.
Life and career
Barksdale completed aviation ground school in Austin, Texas. In September 1917, he embarked to England and received flight training with the Royal Flying Corps and was assigned to the 41st Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, in 1918.[1] He later became a founding member of the U.S. Army's 25th Aero Squadron. In 1919, Barksdale was assigned to Mitchel Field, New York, where he married Lura Lee Dunn in 1921. On 8 March 1924 then Lt Barksdale and his navigator, Lt Bradley Jones, flew a DH-4B, powered by a 400-horsepower Liberty engine from McCook Field, OH to Mitchel Field using instruments only.[2]
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25th AS, Lt Barksdale pictured (bottom row, 2nd from left)
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25th AS, Lt Barksdale pictured (forth from right, back row)
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Lt Barksdale, date unknown
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Lt Barksdale, date unknown
Death
In August 1926, Barksdale was testing a Douglas O-2 observation airplane for spin characteristics over McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio, and was unable to recover from a flat spin. While attempting to bail out of the stricken plane, his parachute caught in the wing's bracing wires, and he went down with the plane and was killed.[3][4] He was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.[1][5]
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Douglas O-2 crash that killed Lt Barksdale.
See also
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References
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- ↑ Mueller, Robert, "Air Force Bases Volume 1: Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982", United States Air Force Historical Research Center, Office of Air Force History, Washington, D.C., 1989, Template:ISBN, p. 15.
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External links
- Barksdale Air Force Base – the base provides information about its dedication to its namesake
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- 1896 births
- 1926 deaths
- Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States
- Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
- United States Army officers
- United States Army Air Service pilots of World War I
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1926
- Accidental deaths in Ohio