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Description: Pictured are the 25th Aero Squadron Officer Corps. Taken around Thanksgiving Day, 1918. Reed G. Landis, the squadron's first commander once the unit was operational, is centered holding the mascot "Mike". Left to Right - Front Row:Lawrence N. Polk, Eugene Hoy Barksdale, Donald Swett Poler, Willard W. Lauer, Reed G. Landis (& "Mike"), Frederick Ernest Luff, John C. Mathiessen, Morse B. Kent, and Sidney A. Batchelder. Center row: Walter Rahman, Jesse A. Crafton, Paul V. Burwell, Donald A. Wilson, Aubrey F. Diamond, Guy M. Baldwin, John B. Carver, Morris M. Kidd, and Oliver P. Johnson. Rear row: Samuel R. Klubock, Joseph "Child Yank" Boudwin, R. D. Jennings, David W. Lewis, and Robert A. Reese.
Title: 25th Aero Squadron
Credit: Identification by Reed G. Landis in interview through American Aviation Historical Society Journal. Vol 7 #1 Spring 1962 and through the National Archives "Gorrell Report: The Final Report of the Chief of the Air Service" (filed by General Mason M. Patrick in 1919)
Author: Compiled by James J. Sloan through interviews of original squadron members and Col. Edgar S. Gorrell's (U.S. Army Air Service) report.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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