JESKE, NIKOLAJS

• 1915 - Graduates from Czarist Russian flight school (Sevastopol)
• 1916 - serves as a flight instructor in Russian air force.
• April 14, 1920 - joins the latvian military, aviation section.
• July 24, 1921 - in Sopwith Strutter #2 makes a successful forced landing near Tornkalns.
• October 6, 1921 - forced landing in Sopwith Strutter #2.
• August 7, 1921 - participates in the Aviation Festival at Riga/Spilve.
• March 17, 1922 - takes part in the operation to resupply (by air) german ships locked in the ice in the Gulf of Riga.
• April 1922 - makes a successful forced landing at Plavinas, en route to Daugavpils.
• Briefly, during a period of transition, served as the head of the first Latvian Aero Club.
• 1923 - Rank: Captain

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