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Show MAJOR THAW, U. S. ACE, IS PROMOTED TO LIEUT. COLONEL NKW" YORK, Nov. 27. Major William Thaw Amnjican ace with the 103rd United Statcs-aero squadron In France, has been promoted to a lleutenant-colo-nrlcv, according to advices received here todav by Alan R. Haw-ley, president of the Aero club of America. 1 Lieutenant Colonel Thaw is 2S y-aurs old, and according to Mr. Hawley. is one of the yoiniKest officers of that rank in the Vnerican or allied armies. He was re-centlv re-centlv awarded the United States distinguished distin-guished service cross, with two citations by General Pershinp, and had previously previous-ly been similarly honored by the French government while a member of the Lafayette Lafa-yette escadrllle. " A vounger brother of Colonel Thaw, Lieutenant Alexander Blair Thaw, was killed last August in France. |