Military Balloonists

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This file appears in: Edward "Eddie" Ward

Military balloonists are shown in this 1917 photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress

This file appears in: Edward "Eddie" Ward

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #2300 in Pine Knot remembers Corporal Edward Ward, the first US soldier named to the military’s new aviation program in 1907. To say that the US military was intrigued with the…