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Dean Cullen Smith, an aviation pioneer, was born at his grandparents’ home in Cove, Oregon on September 27, 1899. After graduating from high school, he attended Principia College in St. Louis, Missouri, for two years.
U.S. ArmyIn the summer of 1917, not long after the United States entered World War I, Smith enlisted in the aviation section of the U.S. Army’s...