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    The 103rd Aero Squadron was an aviation pursuit squadron of the U.S. Air Service that served in combat in France during World War I. Its original complement...
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    escadrille was transferred to the US Army under the designation 103rd Aero Squadron. In 1921, The French Air Force recreated a N124 unit who claimed...
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    22nd Aero Squadron 27th Aero Squadron 28th Aero Squadron 49th Aero Squadron 93d Aero Squadron 94th Aero Squadron 95th Aero Squadron 103rd Aero Squadron 139th...
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    continued their training. The first U.S. squadron to see combat, on February 19, 1918, was the 103rd Aero Squadron, a pursuit unit flying with French forces...
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    two patrols were made over enemy lines by the 103rd Aero Squadron. By 21 August, four pursuit squadrons, all flying SPAD XIII aircraft had been formed...
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    1918 49th Aero Squadron (Pursuit), 2 August 1918 – 5 December 1918 103rd Aero Squadron (Pursuit), 4 July 1918 – 7 August 1918 139th Aero Squadron (Pursuit)...
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    transferred to the United States Army Air Service, where he commanded the 103rd Aero Squadron and the 3rd Pursuit Group. He would score three quick wins in April...
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  • Escadrille SPA.124 (category French Air and Space Force squadrons)
    transferred into the United States Air Service on 18 February as the 103rd Aero Squadron. The remaining French personnel were formed into a unit operating...
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    unit to be stationed here was Air Service 103rd Aero Squadron, 10 to 30 April. Earlier in February, the squadron had arrived from training with 3rd AIC on...
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    94th Aero Squadron. Fellow aviators Captain Douglas Campbell, also of the 94th, and First Lieutenant Frank O'Driscoll "Monk" Hunter of the 103rd Aero Squadron...
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  • Escadrille Spa.163 (category Squadrons of the French Service Aéronautique in World War I)
    Spa.163 was a French fighter squadron founded on 11 April 1918 as a replacement squadron for the American 103rd Aero Squadron. By 11 November 1918, the escadrille...
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    Aviation Instruction Center at Issoudun, France. Assigned to the 103rd Aero Squadron in May 1918, on his first combat patrol Hunter downed two German...
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    Fighter Squadron)  United States Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps United States Army Air Service (189 aircraft) 93rd Aero Squadron 103rd Aero Squadron  Yugoslavia...
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    transition into the 103rd Aero Squadron of the United States Army Air Service. He scored his first aerial victory for the 103rd, on 11 March 1918; it...
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    redesignated as the 103rd Fighter Group and allotted to the National Guard. The 118th Airlift Squadron, assigned to the wing's 103rd Operations Group, was...
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    both his Spad's machine guns. Biddle transferred to the American 103rd Aero Squadron on 10 January 1918 and was commissioned as a captain in the Aviation...
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    The Ikarus Aero 2 was a piston-engined military trainer aircraft built in Yugoslavia in the years following World War II, although the design pre-dated...
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    Davis); Percy Rivington Pyne Jr. (1896–1941), a flier with the 103rd Aero Squadron during World War I; and Meredith Howland Pyne (b. 1898). "Percy Rivington...
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    on 20 August 1917 as the 94th Aero Squadron of the United States Army Air Service at Kelly Field, Texas. The squadron deployed to France and fought on...
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    Ponder was a corporal. When he transferred to an American unit, the 103rd Aero Squadron, he was commissioned as an officer. He scored three more times in...
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    ace credited with five aerial victories. Furlow was posted to the 103rd Aero Squadron on 25 July 1918 as a Spad XIII pilot. On 11 August, he shared his...
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    soon disbanded sometime in February 1918 and its pilots joined the 103rd Aero Squadron arriving at La Noblette on 13 February after its ground troops had...
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    service to be assigned to the original flying echelon of the American 103rd Aero Squadron on February 19, 1918. This echelon was the first unit of the Air...
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    Service. While he served in the 94th and 103rd Aero Squadrons, he scored all his victories while flying for the 103rd. From 11 July to 28 September 1918, he...
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    118th is equipped with the C-130H. The squadron is a descendant organization of the World War I 118th Aero Squadron, established on 31 August 1917. It was...
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    December 1918 (SPAD S.XIII) 103rd Aero Squadron (Pursuit) 4 July 1918 – 7 August 1918 (SPAD S.XIII) 139th Aero Squadron (Pursuit) 30 June 1918 – 11 December...
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    United States Army Air Service in February 1918 to serve in the 103rd Aero Squadron. From there, he was once again posted to another French Spad unit...
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  • (1947–1948) 103rd Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (1948–1966) 103rd Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment 350th Reconnaissance Aviation Squadron 351st Reconnaissance...
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    July 2007 Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, 30 July 2007 – present The 103rd Aero Squadron received its pilots in France in February 1918 from members of the...
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    seven later commissioned, and served together in France with the 103rd Aero Squadron. Although not a member of the national guard, Tex Millman was one...
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