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JAMES
NORMAN HALL |
FRENCH
POLYNESIA |
THE
WORLD |
| April
22, 1887 |
Born
in Colfax, Iowa |
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| 1904 |
Graduated
from high school
Visited
St. Louis Exposition |
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| 1904-06 |
Worked
in clothing store in Colfax |
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| 1906-10 |
Student
at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa |
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| 1908 |
Summer
school at University of Chicago |
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| 1909 |
Summer
in Scotland and England
by
bicycle witha budget
of $ 150.
Saw
Bleriot's plane on exhibit in London |
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| 1910 |
Graduated
from Grinnell College |
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| 1910-14 |
Boston.
Agent for Society for Prevention of
Cruelty
to Children. Friendship formed with
Roy
M. Cushman (Future Editor of the
Boston
Globe), George C. Greener,
Laurence
L. Winship. |
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| May 1914 |
Bicycle
trip through Great Britain,
attempted
to meet his idol Joseph Conrad |
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| Aug.
18, 1914 |
London.
Enlisted on British Expeditionary
Force
as Private in 9th Battalion Royal
Fusiliers
(Lord Kitchener's Volunteer Army
--the
First Hundred Thousand) |
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| Aug.
1914 - May 1915 |
Army
training in England.
Became
machine gunner. |
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| May-Nov.
1915 |
Machine
gunner in Normandy, France |
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| Sept.-Oct.1915 |
Battle
of Loos |
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| Dec.
1, 1915 |
Discharged
from British Expeditionary
Force. |
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Returned
to U. S. Met Ellery Sedgwick,
editor
of Atlantic Monthly |
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| Jan.-Apr. 1916 |
Wrote Kitchener's
Mob |
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| Summer
1916 |
In
London with Greener |
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| Sept.
1916 |
Paris.
Gathering information for articles
on
Lafayette Escadrille for
Atlantic
Monthly |
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| Oct.
16, 1916 |
Paris.
Enlisted in Lafayette Escadrille |
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| 1916
Publication |
Kitchener's
Mob: The Adventures of an
American
in Kitchener's Army. |
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| Oct.
1916- Jun 1917 |
Aviation
school at Buc, later at Avord. |
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| June
14, 1917 |
Went
to the front (near Soissans), in Squad 124 |
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| June
26, 1917 |
Wounded
seriously in aerial combat with
four
German planes. |
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| June-Sept.
1917 |
American
Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly |
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| Sept.
1917 |
Returned
to action, rank of Sergeant |
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| Sept.
1917 |
Crashed
on Vosges mountain, broke nose |
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| Feb.
7, 1918 |
Transferred
to 94th (and later to 103rd) |
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Pursuit
Squadron of the U.S. Air Service
with
rank of Captain |
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| May
7, 1918 |
Shot
down behind German lines near
Pagny-sur-Moselle,
after the cover on
his
wing came apart |
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| May-July15,1918 |
Taken
prisoner in German hospital
with
broken ankle and nose |
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| July
15-Nov. 16, 1918 |
In
various prisons in Germany, the last
being
Schloss Trausnitz in Landshut,
Bavaria |
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| Nov.16,
1918 |
Allowed
to "escape" from prison, train
to
Munich, Lindau, through
Switzerland
to Paris |
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| Nov.
1918 Paris. |
Met
Charles Nordhoff. Both commissioned
to
write history of Lafayette Escadrille |
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| 1918
Publication |
High
Adventure: |
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A
Narrative of Air Fighting in France |
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| Mar. 1919 |
Returned
to U.S.
Promoted
to Major |
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| Summer
1919 |
Martha's
Vineyard with Charles Nordhoff.
Wrote The
Lafayette Flying Corps |
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| Fall
1919 |
Lecture
tour |
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| Jan. 1920 |
Nordhoff
and Hall sailed from California
to
Tahiti, arrived Feb. 1920.
Worked
with Charles Nordhoff in
a
rented room at Hotel Aina Pare
in
Papeete |
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| 1920
Publication |
The
Lafayette Flying Corps |
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(with
Charles Nordhoff). |
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| 1920-1921 |
Voyages
in South Seas on copra
schooners |
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| 1921 Publications |
Faery
Lands of the South Seas
(with
Charles Nordhoff) |
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| April 1922 |
Left
Tahiti for U.S. and Iceland |
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| Aug.
1922-Feb. 23? |
Sat
for 2nd degree at Grinnell |
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| Summer 1923 |
Returned
to Tahiti |
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| 1925 |
Settled
in Arue
Married
Sarah Winchester |
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| 1926 |
Son,
Conrad Hall, born |
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1926
Publication
1928
Publication |
Mid-Pacific
On
the Stream of Travel |
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| 1929 |
Nordhoff
and Hall began
Mutiny
on the Bounty |
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| 1929
Publication |
Falcons
of France: A Tale of Youth and
the
Air (with
Charles Nordhoff) |
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| Aug. 1930 |
Nancy
born in San Diego. Visits to U.S.
about
every two years, usually
staying
several months in Calif. |
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| 1930 Publications |
Flying
with Chaucer,
Mother
Goose Land |
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| 1932 Publication |
Mutiny
on the Bounty
(with
Charles Nordhoff). |
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| 1933 |
Shipwrecked
near Mangareva while
researching
Pitcain - Lost for several months |
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| 1934 Publications |
Men
Against the Sea
(with
Charles Nordhoff), |
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Pitcairn's
Island
(with
Charles Nordhoff), |
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The
Tale of a Shipwreck |
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| 1936 Publication |
The
Hurricane (with
Charles Nordhoff). |
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| 1938 Publication |
Dark
River (with
Charles Nordhoff). |
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| 1939 Publication |
The
Friends |
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| 1940 Publications |
Oh,
Millersville!
(By
Fern Gravel, pseud.).
No
More Gas
(with
Charles Nordhoff).
Doctor
Dogbody's Leg |
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| 1941 |
Charles
Nordhoff's departure
for
the United States |
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| 1941 Publication |
Botany
Bay (with
Charles Nordhoff). |
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| 1942 Publications |
Men
Without Country
(with
Charles Nordhoff), |
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Under
A Thatched Roof. |
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| 1944 Publication |
Lost
Island. |
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| 1945 Publication |
The
High Barbaree
(with
Charles Nordhoff), |
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| April 1947 |
Santa
Barbara, Calif. Nancy's marriage
to
Nicholas Rutgers.
Charles
Nordhoff's death. |
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| 1949 Publication |
A
Word for His Sponsor:
A
Narrative Poem |
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| June 1950 |
Grinnell
College, 40th reunion,
received
honorary PhD degree in
Literature,
became Dr. Hall |
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| 1950
Publication |
The
Far Lands |
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| July
6, 1951 |
Tahiti.
Died of cardio-vascular ailment |
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| 1952 Publications |
The
Forgotten One and |
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Other
True Tales of the South Seas, |
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Her
Daddy's Best Ice Cream, |
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My
Island Home |
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