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1. Chuck Reber 10/31/2008

   I keep finding incredible things accomplished by members of my
   family whom I believe should be posted in one of your magazines.

   Samuel was a balloon pilot as well as first chief of the Army
   Aviation Division. He sent Airplanes to Mexico chasing Pancho
   Villa.
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   “Another chapter in aerial achievement is recorded in the
   sending of a wireless message from an aeroplane…McCurdy.”
   This is the first wireless message sent from an aviator in flight to
   a receiving station on earth.

   J D A McCurdy, a pupil of Glenn H Curtiss was both aviator and
   sender and Harry M Horton acting under supervision of Major
   Samuel Reber of the U S signal corps, was the receiving operator.
   McCurdy had attached a key to his steering wheel.

   http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=27201

   By Wireless ‘Phone from Arlington to Paris
   http://earlyradiohistory.us/1915ATT2.htm

   Owing to the fact that France is at war and that wireless is
   playing a most important part in the working out of the French
   military communication system, it was with extreme difficulty
   that officials were persuaded to permit the use of the 1,000 foot
   Eiffel Tower station at Paris for the receipt of the radiophone
   messages from Arlington. . . .

   In order that there could be no doubt of the genuineness of the
   tests, officers of the French Government, two or more of whom
   represented the army, were with Messrs. Shreeve and Curtis in
   Paris, while Colonel Samuel Reber, of the United States Army and
   other American army and navy officers watched intently the
   experiments at Arlington.

   Army Combat Photography – With the addition of photography
   as a Signal Corps function, the corps published a Manual of
   Photography, written by First Lieutenant Samuel Reber in 1896.

   http://www.army.mil/-news/2008/06/15/9674-just-one-more–
   combat-photography/

   I have some articles and photos of Samuel Reber and his family.