Willis Bradley Haviland
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Willis Bradley Haviland, (10 March 1890 – 28 November 1944) was a pioneer military pilot in World War I
and a Naval Air Station
Commanding Officer in World War II
. As the sixteenth American volunteer in the Lafayette Escadrille
, he was among the first air combat pilots to fight the Germans in WWI
, before the United States
officially entered the war. He would later become the first pilot to launch a plane from a battleship.
, Willis was the only son of Dr. Willis Henry Haviland (10 Sep 1864 - 15 Jan 1939) by his first wife Grace Hynes. His parents divorced 28 Jun 1895, when he was only about 5 years old, and Dr. Haviland remarried to Mary Page Irvine on 22 Jul 1895 in Butte, Montana. Willis Bradley Haviland would remain close to his biological mother well into his adulthood.
He attended Kemper Military School
and Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
at Ames.
His father was elected a Montana State Senator in 1906 for one term in the Democratic Party. Meanwhile young Willis B. Haviland enlisted in the United States Navy from 1907-1911. When war broke out in Europe, Willis joined the American Field Service
(American Ambulance Corp, nicknamed "Friends of France") in 1915. There he drove ambulances for seventeen months at the Alsace
front. When the Field Service and American Ambulance severed ties in the summer of 1916, Willis received a pilot's license on the 7th of September in that year and entered the American Escadrille (soon afterward renamed Lafayette Escadrille
) becoming the sixteenth American volunteer pilot in the squadron.
pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille, and occasionally was assigned a bombing run. He was permitted only to engage in air combat with the enemy in defense. Consequently, he earned only two confirmed "kills" in this time period, not nearly as many as his ace peers who had more aggressive assignments. He was adept at keeping his plane out of the enemy's firing angle, and if provoked he was skilled enough to send the German and Austrian pilots into retreat when he turned on them.
After the United States joined the war, Haviland became Executive Officer of a Naval Air Station at Dunkirk, France
with one month of special duty in the 13th Squadron RNAS
flying a Sopwith Camel
single-seater biplane. In July, 1918, Lt. Haviland was reassigned to command the Naval Air Station near the village of Porto Corsini in Italy and train pilots there. "So successfully did the station carry out its mission that Admiral H. T. Mayo, USN, stated on the basis of his inspection November 10, 1918, that the station had 'the distinction of being the most heavily engaged unit of the U.S. Naval Forces in Europe.'"
Following the war, Lt. Haviland was assigned to the USS Texas (BB-35)
near Guantánamo Bay as a combat pilot. There, he became the first pilot to launch a plane off a U.S. battleship, and the first pilot to launch a military aircraft off any ship, motivating the United States to begin developing the first military aircraft carrier
s. The idea was inspired by experiments in 1910 when stunt aviator Eugene Ely
launched a Curtiss Model D (non-military) biplane off of a custom platform built onto the United States
Cruiser
USS Birmingham
. Haviland's idea, which he had proposed to Captain Nathan C. Twining on the USS Texas (BB-35)
, was to build a 40 feet (12.2 m), 12 feet (3.7 m) runway of timbers lashed together on the Number 2 guns of the Battleship's forward deck. His Sopwith Camel biplane would then be winched down on the runway and its wheels held by a bridle to be released at Haviland's command, after the plane's propeller had sufficient speed for takeoff. "Haviland climbed into the cockpit and revved and raced the plane's motor until it seemed to the nearby sailors that the prop blast and vibration would tear the fuselage apart. Haviland signaled for the cables to be released. The straining aircraft roared down the runway, dropped precipitously toward the sea, then climbed into the sky."
Lt. Haviland subsequently served on the USS Okahoma
, whose fate would end at Pearl Harbor
in 1941. In 1942, Haviland became the Executive Officer
assigned to the establishment of a Naval Air Station on Whidbey Island
, Washington which was commissioned 21 Sept 1942. He assumed the role of Commanding Officer
of that station in November, 1943 upon the detachment of the previous CO
, Captain Cyril T. Simard. On February 18, 1944 Captain Willis B. Haviland was appointed the role officially by the Bureau of Personnel, which he held until 1 Sept 1944 when his superior officers, impressed by his efficient management of the facility, asked him to relinquish command for a special assignment in the Central Pacific War Zone.
earned him a U.S. Navy Cross
, a French Croix de guerre
with two palms and one star, a Belgian Croix de guerre
with palm, an Italian Croce di Guerra
("Cross of War"), and an Italian Medal of Military Valor. Pilots under his command at Porto Corsini, Italy won sixteen Navy Crosses and one Congressional Medal of Honor
, the latter being Ensign Charles Hammann
.
State Senator
in 1906-1910 (Democratic Party
). Willis Henry Haviland married 5 Jun 1889 in St. Paul, Minnesota to Grace Hynes (born 31 Oct 1866 in Kenosha, Wisconsin), who was Willis Bradley Haviland's mother. They divorced 28 Jun 1895, and Dr. Haviland remarried 22 Jul 1895 in Butte, MT to Mary Page Irvine who was born in 1870 and died 19 Jun 1956. Dr. Haviland had two daughters with Mary, being: Katherine Irvine and Elizabeth; Willis Bradley Haviland's half-sisters. Dr. Haviland married a third time, to Frances Elbert Harris, born ca 1881 and died 13 Aug 1944 in Butte, MT, where she is buried next to her husband at the Mountain View Cemetery in that city.
Willis Henry Haviland's parents were Willis Hoag Haviland (born 1 Nov 1805 in Haviland Hollow, Putnam County, NY; died 10 Dec 1883 in Glens Falls, Warren County, NY), and Hannah Wing Haviland (born 29 Dec 1836 in Glens Falls, Warren County, NY where he is buried at the Glens Falls Cemetery; died 25 Nov 1922 in Butte, Silver Bow County, MT where she is buried near her only child at the Mountain View Cemetery).
Willis Hoag Haviland, a farmer, and his second wife, Hannah Wing Haviland, were first cousins once removed, which caused friction with the Quaker Meeting to which they belonged, ending in severance with the church. Hannah Wing Haviland's half-sister was Ann Elizabeth Button (27 Mar 1823 - 15 Mar 1849), wife of David Jay Haviland (29 Mar 1820 - 13 Aug 1868); they were the parents of Elizabeth R. Haviland (1845–1888) who would marry Duane Williams Carrier and have only child Willis Haviland Carrier
in 1876, later the inventor of modern air conditioning technology. Willis Haviland Carrier
was named after Willis Hoag Haviland, who after Elizabeth's father's death took care of her before she was married. (Willis Hoag Haviland was also Elizabeth's uncle-in-law.)
Willis Haviland Carrier and Willis Bradley Haviland are therefore Third Cousins through the Haviland family, Half 2nd Cousins through the Otis family, and 5th cousins through the Hoag family, and both are named after Willis Hoag Haviland.
Willis Bradley Haviland is also believed to be a 3rd Cousin Thrice Removed of David Haviland and his siblings, manufacturers of Haviland brand China tableware. (See Haviland & Co
.)
More distantly, there is sufficient DNA and Genealogical proof to connect Willis Bradley Haviland to aircraft inventor Sir Geoffrey de Havilland
and his cousins, actress Olivia de Havilland
and Joan Fontaine
, with whom it is believed he is an 11th Cousin Twice Removed.
Willis Bradley Haviland married Mary Lucile Satterthwaite, a cousin of U.S. Senator George Smathers
of Florida and had one daughter, Barbara Grace Haviland who married James Burlon Lamm. Barbara's son, Willis Haviland Lamm, inherited Willis Bradley Haviland's scrapbooks, documents and memorabilia.
Commander
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Willis Bradley Haviland, (10 March 1890 – 28 November 1944) was a pioneer military pilot in World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
and a Naval Air Station
Naval Air Station
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Commanding Officer in World War II
World War II
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. As the sixteenth American volunteer in the Lafayette Escadrille
Lafayette Escadrille
The Lafayette Escadrille , was an escadrille of the French Air Service, the Aéronautique militaire, during World War I composed largely of American volunteer pilots flying fighters.-History:Dr. Edmund L...
, he was among the first air combat pilots to fight the Germans in WWI
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
, before the United States
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officially entered the war. He would later become the first pilot to launch a plane from a battleship.
Early life
Born on 10 March 1890 in Minneapolis, MNMinnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, Willis was the only son of Dr. Willis Henry Haviland (10 Sep 1864 - 15 Jan 1939) by his first wife Grace Hynes. His parents divorced 28 Jun 1895, when he was only about 5 years old, and Dr. Haviland remarried to Mary Page Irvine on 22 Jul 1895 in Butte, Montana. Willis Bradley Haviland would remain close to his biological mother well into his adulthood.
He attended Kemper Military School
Kemper Military School
Kemper Military School & College was a private military school located in Boonville, Missouri. Kemper filed for bankruptcy and closed in 2002. The school's motto was "Nunquam Non Paratus" .-Early years under Frederick T. Kemper:...
and Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Iowa State University
Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. Iowa State has produced astronauts, scientists, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, along with a host of...
at Ames.
His father was elected a Montana State Senator in 1906 for one term in the Democratic Party. Meanwhile young Willis B. Haviland enlisted in the United States Navy from 1907-1911. When war broke out in Europe, Willis joined the American Field Service
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(American Ambulance Corp, nicknamed "Friends of France") in 1915. There he drove ambulances for seventeen months at the Alsace
Alsace
Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...
front. When the Field Service and American Ambulance severed ties in the summer of 1916, Willis received a pilot's license on the 7th of September in that year and entered the American Escadrille (soon afterward renamed Lafayette Escadrille
Lafayette Escadrille
The Lafayette Escadrille , was an escadrille of the French Air Service, the Aéronautique militaire, during World War I composed largely of American volunteer pilots flying fighters.-History:Dr. Edmund L...
) becoming the sixteenth American volunteer pilot in the squadron.
Aviation career
Willis Bradley Haviland was primarily an escort and reconnaissanceReconnaissance
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pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille, and occasionally was assigned a bombing run. He was permitted only to engage in air combat with the enemy in defense. Consequently, he earned only two confirmed "kills" in this time period, not nearly as many as his ace peers who had more aggressive assignments. He was adept at keeping his plane out of the enemy's firing angle, and if provoked he was skilled enough to send the German and Austrian pilots into retreat when he turned on them.
After the United States joined the war, Haviland became Executive Officer of a Naval Air Station at Dunkirk, France
France
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with one month of special duty in the 13th Squadron RNAS
Royal Naval Air Service
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flying a Sopwith Camel
Sopwith Camel
The Sopwith Camel was a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter introduced on the Western Front in 1917. Manufactured by Sopwith Aviation Company, it had a short-coupled fuselage, heavy, powerful rotary engine, and concentrated fire from twin synchronized machine guns. Though difficult...
single-seater biplane. In July, 1918, Lt. Haviland was reassigned to command the Naval Air Station near the village of Porto Corsini in Italy and train pilots there. "So successfully did the station carry out its mission that Admiral H. T. Mayo, USN, stated on the basis of his inspection November 10, 1918, that the station had 'the distinction of being the most heavily engaged unit of the U.S. Naval Forces in Europe.'"
Following the war, Lt. Haviland was assigned to the USS Texas (BB-35)
USS Texas (BB-35)
USS Texas , the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a . The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914....
near Guantánamo Bay as a combat pilot. There, he became the first pilot to launch a plane off a U.S. battleship, and the first pilot to launch a military aircraft off any ship, motivating the United States to begin developing the first military aircraft carrier
Aircraft carrier
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s. The idea was inspired by experiments in 1910 when stunt aviator Eugene Ely
Eugene Burton Ely
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launched a Curtiss Model D (non-military) biplane off of a custom platform built onto the United States
United States
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Cruiser
Cruiser
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USS Birmingham
USS Birmingham (CL-2)
USS Birmingham , named for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, was a laid down by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company at Quincy, Massachusetts on 14 August 1905; launched on 29 May 1907; sponsored by Mrs L...
. Haviland's idea, which he had proposed to Captain Nathan C. Twining on the USS Texas (BB-35)
USS Texas (BB-35)
USS Texas , the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a . The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914....
, was to build a 40 feet (12.2 m), 12 feet (3.7 m) runway of timbers lashed together on the Number 2 guns of the Battleship's forward deck. His Sopwith Camel biplane would then be winched down on the runway and its wheels held by a bridle to be released at Haviland's command, after the plane's propeller had sufficient speed for takeoff. "Haviland climbed into the cockpit and revved and raced the plane's motor until it seemed to the nearby sailors that the prop blast and vibration would tear the fuselage apart. Haviland signaled for the cables to be released. The straining aircraft roared down the runway, dropped precipitously toward the sea, then climbed into the sky."
Lt. Haviland subsequently served on the USS Okahoma
USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
USS Oklahoma , the only ship of the United States Navy to ever be named for the 46th state, was a World War I-era battleship and the second of two ships in her class; her sister ship was . She, along with her sister, were the first two U.S...
, whose fate would end at Pearl Harbor
Attack on Pearl Harbor
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in 1941. In 1942, Haviland became the Executive Officer
Executive officer
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assigned to the establishment of a Naval Air Station on Whidbey Island
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island is a naval air station located in two sections around Oak Harbor, Washington, USA. It was commissioned as an active U.S. Navy installation on 21 September 1942....
, Washington which was commissioned 21 Sept 1942. He assumed the role of Commanding Officer
Commanding officer
The commanding officer is the officer in command of a military unit. Typically, the commanding officer has ultimate authority over the unit, and is usually given wide latitude to run the unit as he sees fit, within the bounds of military law...
of that station in November, 1943 upon the detachment of the previous CO
Commanding officer
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, Captain Cyril T. Simard. On February 18, 1944 Captain Willis B. Haviland was appointed the role officially by the Bureau of Personnel, which he held until 1 Sept 1944 when his superior officers, impressed by his efficient management of the facility, asked him to relinquish command for a special assignment in the Central Pacific War Zone.
Death
Captain Willis B. Haviland fell ill at the time of his accepting the new position in the Central Pacific, delaying his assignment. He died suddenly at the Naval Hospital at Corona, CA on 28 Nov 1944. He is interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA in Section 8, Site 6024.Honors
Haviland's piloting skills in World War IWorld War I
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earned him a U.S. Navy Cross
Navy Cross
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, a French Croix de guerre
Croix de guerre
The Croix de guerre is a military decoration of France. It was first created in 1915 and consists of a square-cross medal on two crossed swords, hanging from a ribbon with various degree pins. The decoration was awarded during World War I, again in World War II, and in other conflicts...
with two palms and one star, a Belgian Croix de guerre
Croix de guerre
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with palm, an Italian Croce di Guerra
Croce di Guerra
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("Cross of War"), and an Italian Medal of Military Valor. Pilots under his command at Porto Corsini, Italy won sixteen Navy Crosses and one Congressional Medal of Honor
Medal of Honor
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, the latter being Ensign Charles Hammann
Charles Hammann
Charles Hazeltine Hammann was an officer in the United States Navy, an early naval aviator, and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.-Biography:...
.
Family and Genealogy
Willis Bradley Haviland's father was Dr. Willis Henry Haviland, M.D., born 10 Sep 1864 in Haviland Hollow, Putnam County, NY, died 15 Jan 1939 in Butte, Silver Bow County, MT. He was a career physician, and a MontanaMontana
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State Senator
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in 1906-1910 (Democratic Party
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). Willis Henry Haviland married 5 Jun 1889 in St. Paul, Minnesota to Grace Hynes (born 31 Oct 1866 in Kenosha, Wisconsin), who was Willis Bradley Haviland's mother. They divorced 28 Jun 1895, and Dr. Haviland remarried 22 Jul 1895 in Butte, MT to Mary Page Irvine who was born in 1870 and died 19 Jun 1956. Dr. Haviland had two daughters with Mary, being: Katherine Irvine and Elizabeth; Willis Bradley Haviland's half-sisters. Dr. Haviland married a third time, to Frances Elbert Harris, born ca 1881 and died 13 Aug 1944 in Butte, MT, where she is buried next to her husband at the Mountain View Cemetery in that city.
Willis Henry Haviland's parents were Willis Hoag Haviland (born 1 Nov 1805 in Haviland Hollow, Putnam County, NY; died 10 Dec 1883 in Glens Falls, Warren County, NY), and Hannah Wing Haviland (born 29 Dec 1836 in Glens Falls, Warren County, NY where he is buried at the Glens Falls Cemetery; died 25 Nov 1922 in Butte, Silver Bow County, MT where she is buried near her only child at the Mountain View Cemetery).
Willis Hoag Haviland, a farmer, and his second wife, Hannah Wing Haviland, were first cousins once removed, which caused friction with the Quaker Meeting to which they belonged, ending in severance with the church. Hannah Wing Haviland's half-sister was Ann Elizabeth Button (27 Mar 1823 - 15 Mar 1849), wife of David Jay Haviland (29 Mar 1820 - 13 Aug 1868); they were the parents of Elizabeth R. Haviland (1845–1888) who would marry Duane Williams Carrier and have only child Willis Haviland Carrier
Willis Carrier
Willis Haviland Carrier was an American engineer and inventor, and is known as the man who invented modern air conditioning....
in 1876, later the inventor of modern air conditioning technology. Willis Haviland Carrier
Willis Carrier
Willis Haviland Carrier was an American engineer and inventor, and is known as the man who invented modern air conditioning....
was named after Willis Hoag Haviland, who after Elizabeth's father's death took care of her before she was married. (Willis Hoag Haviland was also Elizabeth's uncle-in-law.)
Willis Haviland Carrier and Willis Bradley Haviland are therefore Third Cousins through the Haviland family, Half 2nd Cousins through the Otis family, and 5th cousins through the Hoag family, and both are named after Willis Hoag Haviland.
Willis Bradley Haviland is also believed to be a 3rd Cousin Thrice Removed of David Haviland and his siblings, manufacturers of Haviland brand China tableware. (See Haviland & Co
Haviland & Co.
Haviland & Co. is a manufacturer of Limoges porcelain.-History:David Haviland was an American businessman from New York dealing with porcelain. While seeking out new business interests, he arrived in Limoges, France and by 1842, he was able to send his first shipment of Limoges porcelain to the...
.)
More distantly, there is sufficient DNA and Genealogical proof to connect Willis Bradley Haviland to aircraft inventor Sir Geoffrey de Havilland
Geoffrey de Havilland
Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, OM, CBE, AFC, RDI, FRAeS, was a British aviation pioneer and aircraft engineer...
and his cousins, actress Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia Mary de Havilland is a British American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 and 1949. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. The sisters are among the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s.-Early life:Olivia de Havilland...
and Joan Fontaine
Joan Fontaine
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland , known professionally as Joan Fontaine, is a British American actress. She and her elder sister Olivia de Havilland are two of the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s....
, with whom it is believed he is an 11th Cousin Twice Removed.
Willis Bradley Haviland married Mary Lucile Satterthwaite, a cousin of U.S. Senator George Smathers
George Smathers
George Armistead Smathers was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Florida in the United States Senate for eighteen years, from 1951 until 1969, as a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life:...
of Florida and had one daughter, Barbara Grace Haviland who married James Burlon Lamm. Barbara's son, Willis Haviland Lamm, inherited Willis Bradley Haviland's scrapbooks, documents and memorabilia.