Eberts Field

Eberts Field was named for Signal Corps Captain Melchior Eberts, a native Arkansan and a West Point Graduate. On 11 August 1916, he was attached to the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps and on 3 March 1917 received the rating of junior military aviation. He was ordered from his station at Rockwell Field, San Diego, California to Columbus Airfield, New Mexico on 3 May 1917. Lieutenant Eberts was killed while making an airplane exhibition flight. Read More...

Aero Ambulance Designed by Major S.M. Strong, Showing Medical Officer in Rear Cockpit, Eberts Training Field

Convalescent influenza patients, Eberts Field

Photographic Planes Ready for Assignments, Flight Department, Eberts Field

Photographic Planes in Hangar, Flight Department, Eberts Field

Huts erected to house patients during the influenza epidemic, Eberts Field

Three unidentified medical officers with aero ambulance designed by Major S. M. Strong, M. C. United States Army

Pilot wearing microphone and radio-receiving helmet, Eberts Field

Firing line on machine gun range, Eberts Field

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