32 Squadron RAF 1918
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No 32 Squadron RAF 1918 background 32 Squadron RAF claims and losses 1918 IX Brigade RAF Orbat November 1918 Airfields 1918 Bailleul 5 Mar 1918 Belleville Farm 27 Mar 1918 Beauvois 29 Mar 1918 Fouquerolles 3 Jun 1918 Ruisseauville 21 Jun 1918 Touquin 18 Jul 1918 La Bellevue 3 Aug 1918 Pronville 27 Oct 1918 La Brayelle 1 Nov 1918 CO: Major John C Russell from 11 Sep 1917 Well known pilots: Capt Walter Alexander "Bing" Tyrrell MC KIA 9 Jun, B Flight Commander (17 Victories) Capt Alvin Andrew Callender (US) MIA/DOW 30 Oct, C Flight Commander (8 Victories) Capt Arthur Claydon (Canadian) KIA 8 Jul C Flight Commander (7 Victories) 2/Lt John Owen Donaldson (USAS) DFC DSC CdG (Belg) (US) POW 1 Sep later escaped (7 Victories) Capt Wilfred Barrat Green DFC LdH CdG + palme, Flight Commander (dep 8 Sep) (7 Victories) 2/Lt Frank Lucien Hale DFC (US) (7 Victories) Lt George Edgar Bruce Lawson DFC (South Africa) (6 Victories) Lt Bogart Rogers (US) temp Flight Commander (6 Victories)
Hale, Reese, Lawson, Maj Russell (CO), Callender, Rogers, McBean (© Earl Rogers from the collection of Capt. Bogart Rogers RAF) 32 Squadron RAF 1918 Personnel Further reading: A Yankee Ace in the RAF. The World War I Letters of Captain Bogart Rogers by Morrow, John H., Jr. and Earl Rogers (editors). War in an Open Cockpit, The Wartime Letters of Captain Alvin Andrew Callender, R.A.F. by Callender, Gordon W., Jr. and Gordon W. Callender, Sr., (editors).
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