Willis Bradley Haviland
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Died when: 54 years 263 days (656 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Commander Willis Bradley Haviland, (10 March 1890 – 28 November 1944) was a pioneer military pilot in World War I and a Naval Air Station Commanding Officer in World War II.
As the sixteenth American volunteer in the Lafayette Escadrille, he was among the first air combat pilots to fight the Germans in World War I, before the United States officially entered the war.
He would later become the first pilot to launch a plane from a battleship.
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