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...The battery was named in G.O. 15, 1909, after 1st Lieutenant [[Thomas E. Selfridge]] {{Cullum|4152}}, first person to die in a crash of a powered airplane, 17 [[File:Battery Selfridge Plan 1928.jpg|thumb|left|795px|Battery Selfridge Plan 1928]] ...

...e 1861, the name of the fortification was later changed to honor Colonel [[Thomas Cass]]<!-- not USMA -->, the regiment’s first commander who was killed in 1 ...ended in tragedy when the aircraft crashed and his passenger, Lt. [[Thomas Selfridge]], became the first powered aviation fatality. ...