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Thomas Oliver Selfridge Jr. (February 6, 1836 – February 4, 1924), son of Rear Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge, was an officer in the United States Navy .
Rear Admiral Thomas Oliver Selfridge (24 April 1804 – 15 October 1902) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War and was the father of another rear admiral, Thomas O. Selfridge Jr.
Overview. Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Jr. (1836—1924) Quick Reference. (1836–1924) Union naval officer. A Massachusetts native, Selfridge spent the early part of his naval career in the South Pacific and in Africa. He participated in the confrontation between the ...
16 set 2015 · Two weeks later on September 17th, following several flights with Wright piloting, the plane crashed after four minutes, mortally injuring passenger Lieutenant Thomas Etholen Selfridge (1882-1908). When he subsequently died of head wounds later that day he became aviation’s first fatality.
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Thomas O. Selfridge Jr. (uncle) Thomas Etholen Selfridge (February 8, 1882 – September 17, 1908) was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in an airplane crash. He was also the first active-duty member of the U.S. military to die in a crash while on duty.
30 apr 2016 · Those whiskers! Lieutenant Commander Thomas O. Selfridge Jr., USN Shown at the time he commanded the USS OSAGE on the Red River in April 1864. It was the nature of that campaign that pitted cavalry charges against river monitors. Catalog #: NH 2858
On board Cumberland was Lieutenant Thomas O. Selfridge, an aggressive and fearless 26-year-old United States Naval Academy graduate. In charge of the forward battery of six guns, he would soon face the brunt of Virginia’s raking fire.
