(1889-03-07)March 7, 1889 Providence, Rhode Island
Died
November 14, 1922(1922-11-14) (aged 33) Norfolk, Virginia
Allegiance
United States of America
Service/branch
United States Navy
Years of service
1907-1922
Rank
Lieutenant Commander
Commands held
Naval Air Station Dunkerque, France
Battles/wars
World War I
Western Front (World War I)
Awards
Distinguished Service Medal Croix de Guerre
Lieutenant Commander Godfrey de Courcelles Chevalier, USN (7 March 1889 – 14 November 1922) was a pioneering naval aviator of the United States Navy of World War I and the early 1920s.
Lieutenant Commander Godfrey de Courcelles Chevalier, USN (7 March 1889 – 14 November 1922) was a pioneering naval aviator of the United States Navy of...
have borne the name Chevalier, in honor of the Lieutenant Commander GodfreyChevalier, a pioneer of naval aviation. USS Chevalier (DD-451), was a Fletcher-class...
the Crusades, starting with the birth of the Chevalier au Cygne (Knight of the Swan), the ancestor of Godfrey, and ending after the accession of Philip IV...
Order of the Nile of Egypt and made a Chevalier of the French Legion d'Honneur. After his retirement, Godfrey was Chairman of the Chelsea Hospital Management...
November 7 – Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860) November 14 – GodfreyChevalier, naval aviation pioneer (b. 1889) December 12 – John Wanamaker, businessman...
(1824–1881) – Army officer Stephen Champlin (1789–1870) – Navy officer GodfreyChevalier (1889–1922) – Navy officer Nathanael Greene (1742–1786) – Continental...
Annapolis, Maryland. The flight took three hours and five minutes. Ensign GodfreyChevalier was his passenger. On 20 June 1913, Towers was nearly killed in an...
the Swan Knight (Le Chevalier au Cigne, first version around 1192) the legendary ancestor of Godfrey of Bouillon. The Chevalier au Cigne, also known...
U.S. Senator from Hawaii from 1959 to 1963 (died 1965) March 7 – GodfreyChevalier, naval aviation pioneer (died 1922) March 8 – Oscar R. Ewing, lawyer...
carrier from Langley on October 17, 1922, and Lieutenant Commander GodfreyChevalier made the first landing on October 26, 1922, in an Aeromarine 39B....
North Carolina launched a Curtiss flying boat piloted by Lieutenant GodfreyChevalier using a catapult, becoming the first ship to do so while underway...
three chansons is Godfrey of Bouillon, around whom the rest of the cycle is based, in a much more romanticized form. These connect Godfrey with the legend...
American aircraft carrier was made by U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander GodfreyChevalier, who piloted an Aeromarine 39 on to the USS Langley as the ship was...
had the idea to create a group of luxury brands. He worked with Alain Chevalier, CEO of Moët Hennessy, and Henry Racamier, president of Louis Vuitton...
such as baron or count of Farussi (the maiden name of his mother) or Chevalier de Seingalt (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ɡɑl]). After he began writing in...
while underway, launching a Curtiss flying boat piloted by Lieutenant GodfreyChevalier. July 15 – William Boeing founds the Pacific Aero Products Company...
Ockelman), American film actress; in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1973) Died: GodfreyChevalier, 33, American naval aviator, died of injuries sustained two days earlier...
300 meters). October 26 – United States Navy Lieutenant Commander GodfreyChevalier makes the first landing on the aircraft carrier USS Langley (CV-1)...
Bombo Chevalier, stated that one of his own seconds had threatened to kill him unless he lost to Carnera. Against the huge, lazy, amiable George Godfrey (249...
A. Cunningham, USMC 1981 Mr. Glenn H. Curtiss, Civilian 1981 LCDR GodfreyChevalier, USN 1981 Mr. Eugene Burton Ely, Civilian 1981 CDR Theodore G. Ellyson...
Lady Lyndon Patrick Magee as the Chevalier de Balibari Hardy Krüger as Captain Potzdorf Gay Hamilton as Nora Brady Godfrey Quigley as Captain Grogan Steven...
Ascha), Crusader with Godfrey of Bouillon Godfrey of Esch (ilius Fredelonis, unus de collateralibus duds Godefrid), Crusader with Godfrey of Bouillon. Second...