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94th Aero Squadron Restaurant, San Diego, California Web site. Military and aviation relics. Hamilton Coolidge World War I Collection at The Museum of Flight Digital Collections - materials related to the wartime experience of Hamilton Coolidge, a fighter ace who served with the 94th Aero Squadron and who was killed in action.
Map of San Diego Bay, featuring Rockwell Field, Coronado, National City, and the surrounding area. The field was originally called the Signal Corps Aviation School. It was the first U.S. Army school to provide flying training for military pilots, and North Island was the school's first permanent location.
The 94 FS is one of the oldest units in the United States Air Force, first being organized 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 the Western Front during World War I as a pursuit squadron.
Constituted in the Army Air Service as the 17th Squadron (Pursuit) on 14 March 1921; Re-designated as the 17th Pursuit Squadron on 25 January 1923; Reconstituted, and consolidated (17 October 1936) with 17th Aero Squadron; Departed from the port of San Francisco, California, about mid-November 1940 on the U.S.A.T. Etolin and arrived in the ...
Air Service recruiting poster, 1917–1918 see also: Organization of the Air Service of the American Expeditionary Force When the United States entered World War I on 6 April 1917, the Air Service of the United States Army existed only as a branch of the Signal Corps, and was known by the name of Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps.
John W. F. M. Huffer (June 15, 1895 – April 23, 1986) was an American military aviator who saw action during the First World War on the ground and in the air. He served with the French armed forces, first with the Foreign Legion [1] and then in the Aeronautique Militaire, [2] before being commissioned into the U.S. Army Air Service in 1917.
Members of the 1st Aero Squadron and a Burgess Model H trainer at North Island (later Rockwell Field), San Diego, California, 1915 Between 19 and 26 November 1915, the six JN-3s of the 1st Aero Squadron at Fort Sill (the other two were on detached duty at Brownsville) made the first cross-country squadron flight, 439 mi (707 km) to a new ...
Strike Fighter Squadron 94: VFA-94 Mighty Shrikes F/A-18E Super Hornet: Carrier Air Wing Seventeen: Commander, Strike Fighter Wing Pacific (COMSTRKFIGHTWINGPAC) Strike Fighter Squadron 97: VFA-97 Warhawks F-35C Lightning II: Carrier Air Wing Two: Commander, Joint Strike Fighter Wing (COMJSFWING) Strike Fighter Squadron 113: VFA-113 Stingers F/A ...