Lewis E. Goodier Jr.

[2] He joined the United States Army and was one of "the first five officers to report to the new Signal Corps Aviation School on North Island near San Diego, California".

On August 17, 1914, Captain Goodier tested a "bomb-dropping device designed by Lt. Riley Scott in a Martin Model T".

[7] While recuperating, Goodier Jr. and his father, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Edward Goodier Sr., the Judge Advocate of the Western Department in San Francisco,[8] assisted two other officers in trying to prefer charges against Cowan for fraudulently collecting flight pay.

However, evidence was introduced during the court-martial showing a pattern of retribution against officers on flying duty who fell into Cowan's disfavor,[9] and that Lieutenant Colonel Reber, the head of the Aviation Section, and Cowan had used Captain Goodier's injuries as a pretext to have him dismissed from the Aviation Section while he was recuperating.

[10] Goodier Jr. continued to serve in the military into World War II and retired as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force.