Robert McLaughlin (aviator)

Lieutenant Robert McLaughlin was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories.^[1]

McLaughlin destroyed two Albatros D.Vs and chased another down out of control during May 1918; he cooperated in one of the destructions with fellow aces Hazel LeRoy Wallace, Reginald Brading, James Henry Forman, Charles Dawson Booker, Maxwell Findlay, Samuel Kinkead, and a couple of other pilots. On 8 August, he was shot down in flames; slightly singed, he flew another combat patrol that very afternoon by his own request. On 12 August, he teamed up with Ronald Sykes and another pilot to destroy a pair of Fokker D.VIIs. Then on 16 September 1918, he drove down a D.VII out of control.^[2]

References

Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920. Christopher F. Shores, Norman L. R. Franks, Russell Guest. Grub Street, 1990. ISBN 0-948817-19-4, ISBN 978-0-948817-19-9.

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