1 Nov 1918
TO: C.O. 27th Squadron, A.S.
SUBJECT: Crash near Montfaucon of Plane #4.
1. Started on "A" Flight patrol at 15:00 H. Motor ran well until about 16:00 H when turning at 2100 revs it suddenly grabbed and prop stopped instantly. I was flying at 500 meters and had no choice of landing place. Landed in shell holes, etc. Machine is a total washout. I brought back the clock and altimeter.
Byron Bilderback.
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Captain Robert Soubiran, Commanding,
Captains Robert L. Rockwell, Edgar C. Tobin, and DeFreest G. Larner,
First Lieutenants Frank O’D Hunter, Percy R. Pyne,
George W. Furlow, Theodore M. Hubbard, Dudley H. Manchester, Livingston
G. Irving, Charles G. Monroe, Warren E. Eaton, Lawrence E. Cuaffman,
John Frost,
John C. Kirtland, Joseph Waddell, Hugo A. Kenyon, William T. Ponder,
Martin F. McQuilken, Herbert B, Batholf, Henry V. Bell, Dan L. Perkins,
Rufus K. Goodenow, John P. Healy,
Second Lieutenants Clarence H. Faith, William C. Appleton, Loran B. Cockrell, Edward M. Gam-ian and Captain Carroll D. Evans, Medical Corps.
Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker, commanding.
Majors Reed S. Chambers, Maxwell Kirby, Cedric Fauntleroy.
Captains James A. Meissner, Thorne C. Taylor, H. Weir Cook, Samuel Kaye, Jr., William W. Palmer, J. Bayard H. Smith,
First Lieutenants Alden B. Sherry, John M. Jeffers, Chester A. Snow, Jr., Charles A. Rankin, Wiley S. Sparks, Robert Z Cates, Kendall F. Hopkins, Charles T. Crocker, Ben C. Jones, William W. Fowler, Duncan R. McKenzie, Joseph H. Eastman, Arthur L. Cunningham, Robert Donaldson, Leo J. Dawson, J. Loy Maloney, James L. Davitt,
Second Lieutenants Dudley M. Outcalt, Raymond W. Evitt, John DeWitt, Karl F. Jackson and Alfred Markham,
with 1st Lieutenant Paul Walters, Medical Corps, and Second Lieutenants Frank Schroeder and Thomas E. Pope, Ordnance Department, attached.
1st Lieutenant Francis M. Simonds, Commanding
First Lieutenants Charles A. Bain, William E. Barnes, Arthur H. Becker, George J. Drew, James A. Butler Jr., Thomas Carroll, Charles E. Cox, Hayward Cutting, Courtney L. Dickerson, Herbert L. Evans, Earl E. Garbutt, James A. Healy, Arthur H. Jones, James C. McAvey, Oscar P. Myers, Walter A. Muther, Collier C. Olive, Ralph A. O’,Neill, Edward P. Peake, Stuart M. Purcell, Joseph C. Raible, Jr., Louis C. Simon, Jr., Phillip H. Stones,
Second Lieutenants Thomas J. Abernathy, Reginald Bowles, Moses Brody, Norbert D. Gorman, Theodore W. Hinger, Charles P. Porter, Kenneth L. Porter, Josiah P. Rowe, Jr., Richard R. Stout, George G. Willard, and 2nd Lieutenant John H. Harvey, Ordnance Department and 146 enlisted men.
26 Nov 1918
Captain Alfred A. Grant, commanding,
Captain Russell G. Pruden,
First Lieutenants Edward W. Rucker, Kenneth S. Clapp, E. A. Hewitt, H. L. Harkins, A. V. Lyman, H. W. Nicholson,, W. F. Stewart, H. A. Joern, J. M. Gwinn, T. F. Lennon, R. Rowland, S. H. Colton, Corliss C. Moseley, Byron P. Bilderback, J. P. Dupey and
Second Lieutenants Hollis A. Cross, E. L. McCubbin, F. W. Bailey with 2nd Lieutenant R.H. Bosshard, Ordnance Department, attached and 197 enlisted men.
Major Harold E. Hartney, 1st Pursuit Group
Captain Harold R. Buckley, 95th Squadron
1st Lt. Edward P. Curtis, 95th Squadron
1st Lt. Lansing C. Holden, 95th Squadron
1st Lt. Cleveland W. McDermott, 147th Squadron
1st Lt. Oscar B. Meyers, 147th Squadron
1st Lt. Ralph O’Neill, 147th Squadron (Oak Leaf)
2nd Lt. Kenneth L. Porter, 147th Squadron
2nd Lt. Charles P. Porter, 147th Squadron
2nd Lt. William E. Brotherton, 147th Squadron, (posthumously)
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27th - Second Lieutenant Frank Luke, Jr., awarded Distinguished Service Cross posthumously for action at St. Mihiel, September 12th to 15th.
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