Dorr Field was named after Flying Cadet Stephen H. Dorr, Jr., who was killed in a 17 August 1917 midair collision. Dorr enlisted in the summer of 1917 and was sent to Toronto, Ontario, Canada for training with the British Royal Flying Corps. He met his death in a flying collision
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| - Dorr Field was named after Flying Cadet Stephen H. Dorr, Jr., who was killed in a 17 August 1917 midair collision. Dorr enlisted in the summer of 1917 and was sent to Toronto, Ontario, Canada for training with the British Royal Flying Corps. He met his death in a flying collision
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| - Training Section, Air Service Army Air Force Training Command
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| - Army Air Force Training Command
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| - Aerial photograph of Dorr Field, Florida, 1942. Note the World War I layout of buildings and hangars along the top of the photo; the World War II expansion of the facilty into a flight training school in the center. Several World War I hangars remain along with the new hangars built as part of the Emory-Riddle Flight School in the center. The large, grassy flying field remains
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| - G Wood Pierce State Mental Hospital
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| - DeSoto County, east of Arcadia, Florida
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| - Dorr Field was named after Flying Cadet Stephen H. Dorr, Jr., who was killed in a 17 August 1917 midair collision. Dorr enlisted in the summer of 1917 and was sent to Toronto, Ontario, Canada for training with the British Royal Flying Corps. He met his death in a flying collision
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