Gustav Kissel, he graduated from Harvard in 1917. When America was entering the Great War and World War I. When he was done he got accepted into the Air Service and was sent for training to England. He served because a Harvard classmate was killed in January 1918 during a training exercise. Highly regarded by his friends for his flying skills, Kissel took off on his first mission on April 12. His squadron encountered a large number of enemy planes, and Kissel's plane was shot down. It was his first time flying. Out of the four Milton aviators his was the second to fall. He is the only American buried in France's Pont du Hem Cemetery for veterans of
