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Show Copy for This Department Supplied by l the American Legion News Service.) I : " " ' i HEADS LEGION AD. MEN'S POST MaJ. Reed Landis, One of the Air- plane Aces, Chairman of Com- mittee on Aeronautics. i MaJ. Reed G. Landis, chairman of ; the American Legion's national coin-1 coin-1 mittee on aeronautics Is a man qualified quali-fied to speak and act on this subject, .according to his war record. Major Landis has nearly a dozen enemy airplanes air-planes to his credit, and was in some stirring engagements. Of course great deeds are to be expected ex-pected of the son of such a virile American figure as Judge Kenesaw .Mountain Landis, but the young man has won a record "of his own." Major Landis was a member of the old First Illinois cavalry when the troops massed on the Southern border bor-der in 1916. Though discharged from service there, he was recalled in 1917, and was sent to the first officer training camp, only to be transferred to the air service, becoming a student stu-dent of the ground school. He took flying Instructions at the University of Illinois flying field, was sent to Rigland and assigned to the Fortieth squadron, British expeditionary forces, then flying the "single seat-ers." seat-ers." He accounted officially for ten Sun planes before he was relieved MaJ. Reed G. Landis. irom the British service to take command com-mand of the Twenty-fifth squadron of the American forces. After commanding com-manding this organization for a short time, he was ordered home and was attached to General Woods' headquarters headquar-ters staff at Chicago as departmental air service officer. For his ability with aircraft, Major Landis was awarded the highly cov-eted cov-eted British Flying Cross, a decoration decora-tion much sought by all English aviators. avia-tors. As a writer, he has contributed to a number of periodicals, with special spe-cial articles on the air service. Major Landis has been commander of the Advertising Men's post of the American Legion in Chicago, and has been called on to speak before many Legionnaires throughout the country In addition to his duties as chairman of the national aeronautics committee. |