Person:Clarence Crumrine (4)

Clarence lived with his parents during the 1900 and 1910 US Federal Censuses.

1.   California. Department of Public Health. Bureau of Vital Statistics. Death Index, 1940-1997.

   Name: Clarence E Crumrine
   Social Security #: 562665893
   Gender: Male
   Birth Date: 26 Mar 1893
   Birth Place: Illinois
   Death Date: 6 Jul 1965
   Death Place: Santa Clara
   Mother's Maiden Name: Dunham
   [Dunham was his maternal grandmother's maiden name]

2.   U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925.

   Name: Clarence E Crumrine
   Age: 30
   Birth Date: 26 Mar 1893
   Birth Place: Grand Ridge, Illinois
   Residence Place: United States Army
   Passport Issue Date: 13 Aug 1923
   Father: George C Crumrine
   Has Photo: Yes

3.   Clarence Edgar Crumrine, in Find A Grave.

   (Article included)
   
   Family links:
   Spouse:
   Dorothy E Cotterman Crumrine (1898 - 1982)

4.   Honolulu, Hawaii Territory, United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   Schofield Barracks.

   Clarence Krumrine 37
   Dorothy Krumrine 31
   Richard Krumrine 2

5.   Macomb, Michigan, United States. 1940 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration)
   Harrison.

   Clarence E Crumrine 47
   Dorothy E Crumrine 41
   Richard D Crumrine 12

6.   CLARENCE E. CRUMRINE, in Davis-Monthan Aviation Field Register.

   in July, 1920, Crumrine piloted one of four Army deHavilland DH-4B aircraft from Mitchel Field NY to Nome, AK. This flight became known as "The First Alaska Air Expedition". The group called themselves the Black Wolf Squadron. The total mileage was 4,500, by way of stops at Erie PA; Grand Rapids, MI; Winona and Minneapolis, MN; Fargo, ND; Portal ND; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Edmonton and Japer, Alberta; Prince George and Hazelton, British Columbia; Wrangell, AK; Whitehorse and Dawson, Yukon Territory; and Fairbanks and Ruby, AK. A 1970 account of the expedition published during its 50th anniversary year by the Seattle Times of August 2, 1970 is at the link
   
   https://dmairfield.com/people/crumrine_ce/index.html

7.   National Geographic Magazine
   v.41, p.499, 1922.

   MARCO POLO and De Soto must have enjoyed the same mingling of eagerness and apprehension that moved the four aviators designated by the United States Army Air Service to blaze the pioneer air trail from the nation's capital to its furthermost possession at the northeast [sic] end of the continent. Like the pioneers who drove their prairie schooners in '49 westward across unmeasured distances and through the constant perils of ambushed enemies, so did we, in our pioneer flight to Alaska, come to look upon every forbidding stretch of landscape we passed as an ambush of danger, active or passive, depending solely upon the fidelity and dependability of our Liberty motors to carry us over and beyond...
   
   Lieutenant C.E. Crumrine, with Sergeant James D. Long as mechanic, flew Number 3.
   
   https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082549935&view=1up&seq=515

8.   Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute
   vol. 49 p.155, Sep 1923.

   AIRPLANE TOUR AROUND THE WORLD.—Approval has been given by the Secretary of War to a project of the air service to map an air route for a tour around the world. First Lieutenant Clarence Crumrine, now at McCook Field, Ohio, and First Lieutenant Clifford Nutt, now on duty in the Philippines, are the two officers of the air service that have been selected to engage in the preliminary work. They will study at the outset available landing places on the Alaskan coast, Aleutian Islands, Japan, and Australia. The preliminary plans contemplate that in Australia the flight would take the course followed by the British aviators in their flight to that country from England some time ago. For the Time being, however, the around-the-world flight merely is a tentative project, and whether or not it shall be attempted will be decided only after consideration of the reports of the preliminary survey and of the many other factors that will be involved.—Army and Navy Register, 30 June, 1923.

9.   COMBAT CHRONOLOGY OF THE US ARMY AIR FORCES FEBRUARY 1944.

   EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
   TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): Colonel Clarence E Crumrine
   temporarily takes command of the XIX Air Support Command, replacing Major
   General Elwood R Quesada. The latter assumes command of the IX Air Support
   Command which assumes control of all fighter and reconnaissance units of the
   IX Fighter Command.

10.   Photo of Air Pioneer.

    The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.), 13 July 1923. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038485/1923-07-13/ed-1/seq-9/>

11.   AERONAUTICS: Final Plans
    21 Jan 1924.

    The final tests of the six world-cruisers (TIME, Dec. 3) will begin early in March, and on April 2 the expedition will start from San Diego for Seattle, the first leg of the trip. From Seattle they will commence their 39,000-mile journey over the territories of 22 foreign countries. The route is divided into six main divisions: from Seattle to the tip of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, in charge of Lieut. Clayton L. Bisnell; from Attu Island to Kamchatka, in charge of Lieut. Clifford C. Nutt; from Nagasaki, Japan, to Calcutta, in charge of Lieut. M. S. Lawson. The route from Calcutta to Constantinople will be prepared by Lieut. H. A. Halgorsen, now in the Philippines. The route from Constantinople to London will be charted by Major Carlisle Walsh. From Copenhagen, operating with the full assistance of the Danish Government, Lieut. Clarence Crumrine will be responsible for the trip home via Iceland and Greenland.
    
    The Army Air Service officers will be in friendly rivalry with the British Royal Air Force, three of whose officers will set out from London in a few weeks to try to make a world circuit in ten days' flying.
    <https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,727755,00.html>

12.   Alaska & return aviators.

    Photograph shows United States Army Air Service aviators who flew in the 1920 Alaskan Expedition, a round trip flight which went from Mitchel Field, Long Island to Nome, Alaska from July 15 to Oct. 20, 1920. Depicted on Mitchel Field are (l-r): St. Clair "Bill" Streett, Clifford C. Nutt, Ross C. Kirkpatrick, Erik H. Nelson, and Clarence E. Crumrine. The Black Wolf Squadron insignia is on the airplane. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018)
    <https://www.loc.gov/resource/ggbain.31575/>