Jelks : diaries, 1917-1919.

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Jelks : diaries, 1917-1919.

The diaries are similar in subject matter, primarily personal accounts of training and army life. Main topics include descriptions of travel, army duties, camp conditions, and sight-seeing treks.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7711818

Georgia Historical Society

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United States. Army. Signal Corps. Aviation Section

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Jelks, Howard Coates, 1897-1984

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Jelks.

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Oliver Robinson Jelks (1893-1974) and Howard Coates Jelks (1897-1984), brothers from Macon, Georgia, both enlisted in the Aviation Section of the United States Army Signal Corps in 1917, soon after the United States entered the First World War. Both received pilots' training and were stationed in France, although neither brother saw active combat. From the description of Jelks : diaries, 1917-1919. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 55794875 ...

Jelks, Oliver Robinson, 1893-1974

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