BIO: Pilot at Naval Air Station Porto Corsini Naval Aviator #1494. First Naval Aviator to be awarded the Medal of Honor. Born in Baltimore Maryland in 1892; attend Baltimore Poly Tech and joined the Navy in 1917. He was awarded Medal of Honor when, as a pilot of an Italian Macchi 5 Seaplane on August 21, 1918, off Austro-Hungarian coast, he dived down and landed next to a downed fellow pilot, George M. Ludlow (Naval Aviator 342), and brought him aboard, and although his plane was not designed for the double load, brought him to safety amid constant danger of attack by Austrian planes. An enlisted pilot at the time, he was commissioned as an Ensign in October 1918. Hammann was killed in a plane crash while on active duty at Langley Field on June 14, 1919 while flying a Macchi M5. MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION: for extraordinary heroism as a Pilot of a seaplane on 21 August 1918, when with three other planes Ensign Hammann took part in a patrol and attacked a superior force of enemy land planes. In the course of the engagement which followed, the plane of Ensign George M. Ludlow was shot down and fell in the water five miles off Pola, Austria. Ensign Hammann immediately dived down and landed on the water close alongside the disabled machine, where he took Ludlow on board. Although his machine was not designed for the double load to which it was subjected, and although there was danger of attack by Austrian planes, he made his way to Porto Corsini.