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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: 2010
Caption: Kiffin Y. Rockwell Marker
Additional Description: On September 23, 1916, during his first mission after returning from leave, Rockwell engaged in a dogfight with a German plane. He was shot in the chest, making him the second American killed in aerial combat. Rockwell was memorialized and honored in numerous ways both in France and the United States. During his graveside service at the base at Luxeuil, French aviator Georges Thenault, commandant of the Layfayette Escadrille said, “His courage was sublime. . . . The best and bravest of us is no longer here.” He was awarded posthumously the Cross of the Legion of Honor. The Veterans of Foreign Wars posts in Newport, Tennessee, and in Asheville are named in Kiffin Rockwell’s memory. (N.C. Dept. of Cultural Resources)
Submitted: May 31, 2010, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p111197
File Size: 0.258 Megabytes

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