Kiffin Yates Rockwell

Kiffin Yates Rockwell is a Tennessee historical marker in in Newport, Cocke County.

Cocke Co. TN 9 (US 25W & US 70), in Newport

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Born in a house 500 yards south, he attended W & L University and V.M.I. Enlisted in the French Foreign Legion, August, 1914: incapacitated for infantry service by wounds, May 1915. Transferring to the French Air Force, he helped found the Escadrille Lafayette. The first American aviator to down an enemy plane, May 18, 1916. Killed in aerial combat over Alsace, Sept. 23, 1916. He is buried in France.

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1893 · Mt Guyot, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map VII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1924 · Tennessee. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1926 · Proposed Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina-Tennessee / engraved and… (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1927 · N. & S. Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Kiffin Yates Rockwell

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