Godfrey Chevalier

Godfrey de Courcelles Chevalier
Born(1889-03-07)March 7, 1889
Providence, Rhode Island
DiedNovember 14, 1922(1922-11-14) (aged 33)
Norfolk, Virginia
AllegianceUnited States of America
Service / branchUnited States Navy
Years of service1907-1922
RankLieutenant Commander
CommandsNaval Air Station Dunkerque, France
Battles / warsWorld War I
AwardsDistinguished Service Medal
Croix de Guerre
An Aeromarine 39B piloted by Chevalier is seen just before it touches down on the flight deck of USS Langley (CV-1) on 26 October 1922 – the first landing aboard an American aircraft carrier.

Lieutenant Commander Godfrey de Courcelles Chevalier, USN (7 March 1889 – 14 November 1922) was a pioneering naval aviator of the United States Navy of World War I and the early 1920s.

Biography

Born in Providence, Rhode Island on 7 March 1889, Chevalier graduated from the United States Naval Academy in June 1910. He was appointed a Naval Air Pilot on 7 November 1915 and a Naval Aviator on 7 November 1918.

On 8 May 1913, ensign Chevalier was the passenger in a long-distance flight of 169 miles, flown in a Curtiss flying boat piloted by Lieutenant John Henry Towers, Naval Aviator No. 3, from the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. down the Potomac River and then up the Chesapeake Bay to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. The flight took three hours and five minutes.[1]

On 12 July 1916 he participated in the installation of the first real aircraft catapult used in the U.S. Navy and piloted the first plane to be launched by catapult, from the armored cruiser USS North Carolina. In November 1917 he commanded the first naval air station in France, at Dunkerque, and for World War I service was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. On 9 March 1919 he was also awarded the Croix de Guerre.[2]

In 1922 he was attached to USS Langley (CV-1), the first American aircraft carrier, in connection with fitting her out. On 26 October 1922 Lieutenant Commander Chevalier made the first landing on Langley's deck, flying Aeromarine 39B No. 606.

A distinguished pioneer of naval aviation, Chevalier died at the Norfolk Naval Hospital at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia, on 14 November 1922 as a result of injuries sustained in the 12 November 1922 crash near Lockhaven, Virginia, of a Vought VE-7 he was flying from Naval Air Station Norfolk to Yorktown, Virginia.[3]

Namesake

Two U.S. Navy destroyers have been named USS Chevalier in his honor, as was Chevalier Field, an airfield at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida. The Chevalier Theatre in Medford, Massachusetts is also named for him.

Awards & Decorations

Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Bronze star
World War I Victory Medal with one bronze service star
  • Godfrey de C. Chevalier
    Godfrey de C. Chevalier
  • Early navy aviators; de C. Chevalier at lower right
    Early navy aviators; de C. Chevalier at lower right
  • Early aviators at the Naval Aeronautic Station) in Pensacola, Florida, in 1914. Ensign Godfrey de C. Chevalier is second from right.
    Early aviators at the Naval Aeronautic Station) in Pensacola, Florida, in 1914. Ensign Godfrey de C. Chevalier is second from right.
  • Godfrey Chevalier in the cockpit of an unidentified aircraft.
    Godfrey Chevalier in the cockpit of an unidentified aircraft.

References

  1. ^ "Lieut. Towers Makes Long Flying Boat Run". Archived from the original on 1999-10-07.
  2. ^ Ticknor, Carol, ed. (1919). New England Aviators 1914-1918: Their Portraits and Their Records, Volume 1. Houghton Mifflin. p. 418. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  3. ^ Linder, Bruce, "Tidewater's Navy", Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, Library of Congress card number 2005019790, ISBN 1-59114-465-5, page 154.
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