Lloyd Andrews Hamilton

First Lieutenant Lloyd Andrews Hamilton was a World War I flying ace credited with ten aerial victories. During five months of 1918 he became an ace with the Royal Flying Corps and then again with the United States Air Service . Hamilton Air Force Base is named after him.

Lloyd Andrews Hamilton was born in Troy, New York, the only child of Methodist minister Reverend John A. Hamilton and his wife Jennie Andrews Hamilton. He was a bright scholar who took his Baccalaureate Degree magnum cum laude from Syracuse University in 1916 and was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. He initiated postgraduate studies at Harvard Business School in September 1916. When America entered World War I, he enlisted in the USAS, onApril and in May he reported to Plattsburgh, New York, for officer training.

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