These are photos of the United States School of Military Aeronautics, Champaign, Illinois, May 1918.
Our family representative is one of our Oaklands (third row, far right) – Milo Oakland, I think. I hope someone can find their family member here – they are all named!
This is the squadron photo.
These are the officers and instructors.
On August 26, 1918 Charles McCollum wrote to his aunts, Emma Osborne Duncan and Erista Osborne of Racine, Wisconsin. He was stationed at Camp Taylor, Kentucky. He’s in Officer Training School – before Camp Taylor, he was at Camp Lewis, Washington.
He is related to Alfred James McCollum of Salinas, California. And possibly through his mother, he is related to the Osbornes. I haven’t worked out this relationship – it much too ‘shirttail’ for me! Emma Osborne married my great grandfather’s brother. They had no descendants.
Again, I would love to find a descendant of Charles McCollum who should have these letters.
This I Leave 