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WWI
Frozen Nose in July
McLean County, Illinois
(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

Donald Jones of LeRoy, while in the aviation training camp at Arcadia, Florida, in July, 1918, reached such an altitude one day in a practice flight, that he froze his nose. The member swelled up to an abnormal size the next day and peeled off. The temperature on the ground at the time was in the 90's. [McLean County, Illinois, in the World War, 1917-1918; by Edward E. Pierson & Jacob Louis Hasbrouck c 1921]

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