LIEUT. EUGENE WUBBEN was killed in an airplane accident in France May 17, 1918. He was a resident of Colorado Springs and entered the first officers training camp at Fort Riley in May 1917. He was transferred to the aviation ground school at Champaign, Ill., in June, 1917, and began flying at Rantoul, Ill., in September of that year. In December, 1917, he was commissioned a reserve military aviator. It was March 10, 1918, that he reached Europe. He was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity and of the class of 1919 at Colorado college. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. John Wubben of the city. WUBBEN, Eugene, Lieut. 106 North Chestnut Street Signal Corps, Aviation, A.E.F. Killed in airplane accident, May 23, 1918. The Colorado Springs Gazette Newspaper (El Paso County, Colorado) Sunday, November 24, 1918. Wubben Eugene P. 1st Lt. 3rd Avia. Ins. Ctr. St.M 32 27 A Eugene P. Wubben First Lieutenant, U.S. Army 3rd Aviation Instruction Center Entered the Service from: Colorado Died: May 17, 1918 Buried at: Plot A Row 27 Grave 32 St. Mihiel American Cemetery Thiaucourt, France http://www.abmc.gov/search/detailw.php 3rd Aviation Instruction Center Monument A stone obelisk commemorating those Americans of the Third Instruction Center who were killed while training with the 3rd Aviation Instruction Center during WWI. The text on this monument, plus the 4 bronze plaques, are as follows : 1917 – 1918 – 1919 ; Third Aviation Instruction Center. Below this text, a French Blue, White, and Red "Cockard" carrying the words "Souvenir Francais" has been fixed to the monument. List of names carried on L. M. Bronze plaque ...... including Eugene P. Wubben The monument is located at the site of the old Volvaut Airfield in the town of Paudy (Indre) on the north side of the route D960, 12kms North of Issoudin. As you leave Vatan (exit from the A-20) on the 960 towards Issoudun, you pass a water tower in the town of Voeu. Take the next possible left turn on a small road and park. Walk 100 meters more down the 960 to a small clearing, where the monument is located. IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES FOR THE CAUSE 1917-1918-1919 THIRD AVIATION INSTRUCTION CENTER AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES Courtesy of Gerald V. Arseneault, 10-1-07 Superintendent of Brittany American Cemetery Special to The New York Times. May 25, 1918, Saturday Page 6, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F01E6DF123FE432A25756C2A9639C946996D6CF
