A 27th Airplane in France
The 1st Pursuit Group staff in France 1918
L to R, Lt Zahner, Lt Hewitt, Capt Roosevelt, Col Atkinson, Capt Wentworth, Lt Linquest, Lt Alexander
Eddie Rickenbacker and his Spad
Frank Luke, the balloon buster relaxing somewhere in France
Toul, France where the 1st Pursuit Group was sited
Eddie Rickenback, a typical bashful fighter pilot
Raul Luftberry, the French fighter pilot who invented the Luftberry Circle
Burial of Maj Luftberry killed in action 19 May, 1918, buried the next day. There were three French and four American officers carrying the coffin and an American flag draped over it. Over 2,000 troops were massed
Lt Douglas Campbell, 94th Aero Squadron, recorded the first kill ever by an American unit,
downing a German Pfalz, 14 April 1918
The grave of Lt Quentin Roosevelt (son of Theodore) member of 1st Pursuit Group staff.
He was shot down and killed in the Battle of Marne. His gravesite was not recovered
until Allied troops advanced a few weeks later.