17th Aero Squadron
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The 17th Aero Squadron was a United States Army Air Service unit that fought on the Western Front during World War I.
Replica 17th Aero Squadron Sopwith F-1 Camel on display at the National Museum of the Air Force, made by USAF personnel from the original World War I factory drawings, completing it in 1974. The aircraft is painted and marked with the squadron's RAF white dumbbell painted on each side of the fuselage aft of the cockpit as the Camel flown by Lt. George A. Vaughn Jr.
Howard Burdick
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Lieutenant Howard Burdick DSC DFC was an American World War I flying ace credited with eight confirmed aerial victories. He and his son, Clinton D. Burdick, are the only known pair of father-son flyin
17th Aero Squadron
…November 1918, France Victories Enemy Aircraft shot down: 51 Enemy Balloons shot down: 3 Total Enemy Aircraft Destroyed: 54 Aces: 6 with probable 7th Lt Howard Burdick, 8 (3 shared) Lt Lloyd A. Hamilton, 5 (3 shared)* * Hamilton had a total of 10 aerial victories, 5 of which were with the Royal Air Force before joining…
Howard Burdick, 1918
USAS Sopwith Camel.