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Line 6: ==1908== [[September 17]] - [[Army Signal Corps]] [[Wright Model A]], Army serial number 1, piloted by [[Orville Wright]], crashed at [[Ft. Myer]], [[Virginia]], killing Lt. [[Thomas B. Selfridge]]. Rebuilt. Retired May 4, 1911, and now in [[Smithsonian Institution]] [[National Air & Space Museum]], [[Washington, D.C.]] [[Selfridge AFB]], [[Michigan]], was later named for the first U.S. military aircrash victim. ==1918== [[August 13]] - [[Jarvis Jennes Offutt]], (1894-1918), becomes the first fatality among natives of [[Omaha, Nebraska]] in World War I, when his [[SE-5]] crashed during a training flight near [[Valheureux]], [[France]], and succumbs to his injuries. The Flying Field, [[Fort George Crook]], [[Nebraska]] renamed [[Offutt Field]], [[May 6]], [[1924]]. ==1921==

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