Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr. participant of World War I
World War I
On 16 November 1917, with the United States at war during World War I, he was commissioned in the United States Army as a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps. After training at the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia, he was posted to the 11th Coast Artillery Company at Fort McKinley, Maine, in April 1918, and then to the 72nd Coast Artillery Company at Fort Preble, Maine, in May 1918.In June 1918, Aldrin went to the School of Aeronautical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),  where he was awarded an M.S. degree in aeronautical engineering in 1918, writing his thesis on an "Investigation of behavior of electrically heated wires with varying inclination to wind stream as applied to anemometer development" and the "Relationship of telephone transmitter resistance with diaphragm displacement - particularly to ascertain applicability as indicator for internal combustion engines", under the supervision of Arthur E. Kennelly.