Emerson Field (Fort Jackson)

Emerson Field is a former World War I military airfield, located at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. It operated as a training field for the Air Service, United States Army from 1918, and was established in connection with the field artillery brigade firing center at Camp Jackson.[1] The airfield was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established starting in 1917 after the United States entry into World War I.[2]

History

Camp Jackson was established in 1917. The flying field was constructed from 18 July 1918,[3] and was soon named for 2d. Lt. William K. B. Emerson, (9 April 1894 - 14 May 1918) of the Allied Expeditionary Force, 12th Aero Squadron, American Field Artillery, who was killed in action at Bonconville, France.[4][5][6][7] A New York City native, Emerson was a 1916 undergraduate of Harvard University and went overseas in the American Ambulance Service.[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ Gorrell's History of the American Expeditionary Forces Air Service, 1917–1919, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
  2. ↑ William R. Evinger: Directory of Military Bases in the U.S., Oryx Press, Phoenix, Ariz., 1991.
  3. ↑ http://jackson.armylive.dodlive.mil/post/museum/history-post-wwii/
  4. ↑ WCA Series 181 - Work Projects Administration Cemetery Records, Revolution to World War I
  5. ↑ http://collections.westchestergov.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/vetcards/id/2409/rec/1
  6. ↑ New York Legislative Documents, One Hundred and Forty-Third Session, 1920, Volume XXXVIII, Nos. 119 to 129 Incl., Appendix E, J.B. Lyon, printers, Albany, New York, page 67.
  7. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=T_JBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=Lt.+Wiliam+K.+B.+Emerson&source=bl&ots=i2lzZhqR69&sig=srUexwpgszHMk_PWwGa13ycHIRA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiO1OeNw9fPAhVCfiYKHXKrCK4Q6AEIIjAC#v=onepage&q&f=false
  8. ↑ Howe, M. A. DeWolfe, editor, "The Harvard Volunteers in Europe: Personal Records of Experience in Military, Ambulance, and Hospital Service", The List of Harvard Men in the European War, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1916, page 248
  9. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=SMUMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA248&lpg=PA248&dq=Lt.+William+K.+B.+Emerson&source=bl&ots=j4fgfYDQd-&sig=gSE1g7p4YvlnauU3p6QblHAzJSI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6kuOcz9fPAhWB5yYKHbvCDf8Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=Lt.%20William%20K.%20B.%20Emerson&f=false

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