Dallas in Dallas County, Texas — The American South (West South Central)

Love Field Airman Memorial

Photographed By Duane Hall, September 8, 2016

1. Love Field Airman Memorial

Plate at bottom of front side of memorial

Inscription.

Love — Field
Named in honor of
Moss Lee Love
First Lieutenant
United States Cavalry
Virginia
1879 1913
2nd Lieut. Arthur Anthony Sego, Jr.
A.S.A., R.M.A.
Born 1894 — Died 1918

2nd Lieut. John Maxwell Widenham
A.S.A., R.M.A.
Born 1889 — Died 1918

2nd Lieut. James L. McKeever
A.S.A., R.M.A.
Died 1918

Rex. Everett Field
1st Lieut. A.S.
Born 1887 — Died 1920

2nd Lieut. Charles James Hyde
A.S.A., R.M.A.
Born 1893 — Died 1918

Cadet
James Forester Dick
Born 1895 — Died 1918

Cadet
Ralph E. Stall
Born 1881 — Died 1918

Cadet
John Wn. Albert Isinger
Died 1918

Cadet
Victor L. Dennis
Died 1918

2nd Lieut. Parker Bruce
A.S.A., R.M.A.
Born 1894 — Died 1918

2nd Lieut. Robinson E. Bidwell
A.S.A., R.M.A.
Born 1897 — Died 1918

2nd Lieut. Ralph Phelps Collier
A.S.A., R.M.A.
Born 1894 — Died 1918

Erected 1922.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Air & Space • War, World I.

Location.

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32° 50.483′ N, 96° 50.758′ W. Marker is in Dallas, Texas, in Dallas County. Memorial is at the intersection of Herb Kelleher Way and Aviation Place, on the right when traveling north on Herb Kelleher Way. Marker is located at the Danny L. Bruce Flag Plaza at Dallas Love Field Airport. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Dallas TX 75235, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Love Field (a few steps from this marker); Oath of Office of President Johnson (a few steps from this marker); Texas’ First Airmail and Passenger Service (a few steps from this marker); Garvin Memorial Cemetery (approx. 1½ miles away); Cochran Chapel Cemetery (approx. 1½ miles away); Cochran Chapel Methodist Church (approx. 1½ miles away); W. P. Cochran Homeplace (approx. 1.6 miles away); Trinity Farms/Rancho Grande Cemetery (approx. 1.9 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Dallas.

Additional commentary.
1. Memorial History
On May 30, 1922 a small granite monument was dedicated at the entrance to Love Field as a memorial to “the twelve officers and cadets of the Army Air Service who made their last flight at that field.” Hundreds of people attended the dedication to pay their silent respects to the departed flyers.

The

Photographed By Duane Hall, September 8, 2016

2. Love Field Airman Memorial

Name plates on front side of memorial

memorial was the idea of Lieutenant Marion G. Putman and his personal contribution to the memory of these men, many of them friends of Lt. Putman. The memorial was erected because Love Field was to be abandoned and it was believed it could lose its identity as an airfield along with the memory of the fallen airmen. The individual bronze name plates of the fallen airmen on the memorial formerly hung in the Officer’s Club at the field.

(Source: Aviation, Volume XIII, No. 3, July 22, 1922, p. 75)

— Submitted September 12, 2016.

2. Memorial Abbreviations
The abbreviation A.S.A. was the United States Army’s World War I identification for “Air Service, Military Aeronautics”. R.M.A. is the World War I Air Service rating for “Reserve Military Aviator”.

— Submitted September 12, 2016.

Photographed By Duane Hall, September 8, 2016

3. Love Field Airman Memorial

Name plates on right side of memorial

Photographed By Duane Hall, September 8, 2016

4. Love Field Airman Memorial

Name plates on back side of memorial

Photographed By Duane Hall, September 8, 2016

5. Love Field Airman Memorial

Name plates on left side of memorial

Photographed By Duane Hall, September 8, 2016

6. Love Field Airman Memorial

Memorial at Center of Danny L. Bruce Flag Plaza image. Click for full size.

Photographed By Duane Hall, September 8, 2016

7. Memorial at Center of Danny L. Bruce Flag Plaza

View to north
Herb Kelleher Way leading to the Love Field terminals is on the left

Credits. This page was last revised on August 27, 2020. It was originally submitted on September 12, 2016, by Duane Hall of Abilene, Texas. This page has been viewed 709 times since then and 231 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. submitted on September 12, 2016, by Duane Hall of Abilene, Texas.