103rd Aero Squadron
The 103rd Aero Squadron was an Aero pursuit squadron which included officers from the disbanded Lafayette Escadrille, and the Lafayette Flying Corps.
History
The 103rd Aero Squadron was formed on 31 August 1917 at Kelly Field, Texas where they were trained until being shipped to Garden City, New York at what later became Mitchel Field. On 23 November 1917 the unit was shipped to Liverpool on board the RMS Baltic arriving 7 December 1917. From there it was quarantined at Winall Downs camp (outside Winchester) until 23 December 1917. The Squadron arrived at Issoudun on 28 December 1917, where it spent the month of January building hangars. On 1 February it resumed training for combat at the front.
Finally on 18 February the officers of the old Lafayette Escadrille were assigned, and the commanding officer, 1Lt Park, was replaced by Maj. Thaw, and combat operations commenced under Combat Group 21, Fourth Army (France). From La Noblette the squadron was shipped north to Flanders, where it spent the remainder of the war at various airfields following the line of advance. On 29 July 1918 Maj. Thaw was promoted to LTC and took over 3d Pursuit Group, and Capt. Rockwell was made commanding officer. After the war the squadron was shipped home from the port of Brest on 19 February 1919.
List of officers
- William C. Appleton
- Paul Frank Baer, (LFC) MIA/POW
- Hobart A.H. Baker
- Herbert B. Bartholf
- Charles J. Biddle (aviator), (LFC)
- Ray Claflin Bridgman (LE)
- B. Drumond Cannon
- Lawrence E. Cauffman
- Phelps Collins, KIA[1]
- Charles Heave Dolan (LE)
- William Edward Dugan, Jr. (LE)
- Paul W. Eaton, MIA
- Warren E. Eaton
- Stuart E. Edger (LFC) Killed in Accident
- Clarence H. Faith (LFC)
- Christopher William Ford, (LE), MIA
- John Frost
- George W. Furlow
- Earnest A. Giroux, KIA
- James Norman Hall (LE)
- Dudley Lawrence Hill (LE)
- Warren T. Hobbs, KIA
- Theodore H. Hubbard
- Frank O'Driscoll Hunter
- Livingston G. Irving
- C. Maury Jones
- Eugene B. Jones, MIA
- Henry Sweet Jones (LE)
- Hugo A. Kenyon
- John O. Kirtland
- John M. Koontz
- DeFreest Larner, (LFC)
- Alfred W. Lawson
- Seth Low
- Wellford Macfadden Jr
- Dudley H. Manchester
- Kenneth Archibald Marr (LE)
- Martin F. Mcquilkin
- Charles I. Merrick
- Cord Meyer
- Charles H. Monroe
- Robert L.W. Owens
- Keene M. Palmer, MIA
- Samuel H. Paris
- David M. Peterson (LE)
- William Ponder (LFC)
- Percy R. Pyne
- John F. Randall
- Robert Lockerbie Rockwell (LE)
- William T. Rolph
- Louie F. Schultze
- Robert Soubiran (LE)
- Mcrea Stephenson
- Edgar Tobin
- Van Winkle Todd, MIA
- George E. Turnure
- Joseph Waddell
- Doyan P. Wardell
- Charles H. Willcox
staff officers
- William Thaw (aviator) (LE) Co.
- Phocion S. Park Adj (original Co.)
- George A. Orr Adj
- John P. Healy Adj
- Henery Bell, operations
- Dan L. Perkins, Eng.
- Claudius H.M. Roberts, Arm.
- Edward H. Carman Arm.
- William H. Bleeker supply
- Elwood S. Frymire supply
- William B. Carill supply
- Rufus K. Goodenow supply
- Sigurd H. Kraft Med.
- Omer O. Gain Med.
- Carroll D. Evans Med.
Stations
- Kelly Field, Texas, 31 August 1917
- Garden City, New York, 5-23 November 1917
- Winchester, England, 8-23 December 1917
- Issoudun, France, 24 December 1917
- La Noblette, France, 18 February 1918
- Bonnemaison (near Fismes), France, 10 April 1918
- Bray-Dunes, France, 2 May 1918
- Leffrinckoucke, France, 5 May 1918
- Crochte, France, 8 June 1918
- Toul, Toul-Croix De Metz Airfield, France, 4 July 1918
- Vaucouleurs, France, 7 August 1918
- Lisle-en-Barrois, France, 20 September 1918
- Foucaucourt, France, 6 November 1918
- Colombey-les-Belles, France, 5 June 1919
- Brest, France, 6-19 February 1919
- Garden City, New York, 4-18 March 1919 (Mitchel Air Force Base)
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