Beau, Lucas V. (Lucas Victor), 1895-1986

Lucas Victor Beau (1895-1986) was born in New York City. He served with the New York National Guard as a corporal on border patrol duty from June to December 1916. Appointed a flying cadet in August 1917, he entered the School of Military Aeronautics at Cornell University, and the following March became an instructor at Eberts Field, Arkansas. A month later he entered gunnery school at Wilbur Wright Field, Ohio, and in June 1918 was commissioned a temporary second lieutenant in the Air Service. Going to France that September, he served at St. Maxient, and later that month entered the Pursuit School at Issoudon, becoming a ferry pilot with the 3rd Aviation Instruction Center there in December 1918.

The following February General Beau was assigned at Mitchel Field, N.Y., served from March to November 1919 as recruiting officer and instructor at Hazelhurst Field, N.Y., and then returned to Mitchel Field. Commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Service, Regular Army July l, 1920, he was immediately promoted to first lieutenant. Assigned at Langley Field, Va., from May to October 1921, he then returned to Mitchel Field for duty with the First Observation Squadron. A year later he joined the Air Service Headquarters Detachment at Bolling Field, Washington D.C., becoming engineer and supply officer of the 18th Headquarters Squadron there in July 1924, and assuming command of it a year later.

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