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Show CHOOSE AIR MAN COMMANDER Former Balloon Pilot, Lawyer, Heads Nebraska Department of the American Legion. Nebraska members of the American Legion' have olected Robert G. Sim- liPliiillif mons, a former balloon pilot, as department commander. com-mander. Mr. Simmons Sim-mons is now an attorney In Scotts-bluff, Scotts-bluff, Neb. The former pilot pi-lot entered the air service October, Octo-ber, 28, 1917, and was "licensed as a spherical balloon pilot by the Aero Club of America in February, 1918, and commissioned as a second Ileuten-anMn Ileuten-anMn the air service In March, 1918. For some time he was an instructor In courts-martial and then was in command com-mand .of the Sixty-third, Eighty-third and Seventy-fourth balloon companies at Fort Omaha. He was commissioned a first lieutenant in, June, 1918. Mr. Simmons is a graduate of the law college of the University of Nebraska. Ne-braska. He served for one term as county attorney. . |