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Title: New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed
Subjects: Biography Aeronautics World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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tsof the Squadron, succeeding to the command of the 91st Squadron. The Squadron did effective work in the St.-Mihiel operations, but it was inthe attack on the Argonne-Meuse front that it was put to the test. The Ger-mans massed their air service units in an effort to nullify the work of ours,and hardly a mission was performed without at least one combat, two orthree of our planes sometimes fighting off 14 or more of the enemy. Thoughonly an observation squadron, and in no sense an attacking or pursuitsquadron, the 91st is credited officially with the destruction of 22 enemyplanes, in over 140 combats. In its work over the Toul sector the Squad-ron lost 5 planes, on the Argonne-Meuse front, 4, with the loss of 11 pilotsand observers killed in action, 12 wounded, and 9 made prisoners. Nine-teen of the officers in, or formerly in, the 91st have received the Distin-guished Service Cross, five the Croix de Guerre with a Palm, and fivehave been promoted to the command of squadrons. ( 196 )
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WILLIAM WALLACE FOSTER First Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A., Eighty-Eighth AeroSquadron, First Observation Group Born in Boston, Dec. 29,1894. He enlisted in Paris in June, 1917, with the Norton-Harjes Am-bulance Unit, Section 63, R.C.A. In July and Aug., 1917, he servedwith the Section Sanitaire, Automobile 63, behind Verdun duringthe great drive. He was transferred from the French to the Americanforces in Sept., enlisting for aviation training. He was trained atTours and Issoudun, and was commissioned 1st Lieut. Nov. 23,1917, with active orders on Jan. 10, 1918; being assigned to 88thSquadron and 1st Aero Squadron, 1st Observation Group. He wasflying over the front lines from May to Aug., 1918, including theengagement at Chateau-Thierry. On Oct. 28, 1918, he was assignedCommanding Officer of Flight C, 351st Aero Squadron, at 1st Ar-tillery Observation School, near Rennes, France. He was honorablydischarged on Feb. 14, 1919, at Hoboken, N.J. ( 198 )

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