New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . up, Capt. Robert Rockwelltook command of the old Lafayette Squadron— now the 103d—and asthe 3d Pursuit Group we participated in the battle of the First AmericanArmy. We were felicitated for our work and lost very few men. We moved with the First Army when they moved up in the Argonne,and between the Argonne and the Meuse patrolled the Verdun salient to Argonne. Our aerodrome at this time was at Lisle-en-Barrois. It was on , 1918, that I was ordered home to report to the Office of the Direc-tor of Military
New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records . up, Capt. Robert Rockwelltook command of the old Lafayette Squadron— now the 103d—and asthe 3d Pursuit Group we participated in the battle of the First AmericanArmy. We were felicitated for our work and lost very few men. We moved with the First Army when they moved up in the Argonne,and between the Argonne and the Meuse patrolled the Verdun salient to Argonne. Our aerodrome at this time was at Lisle-en-Barrois. It was on , 1918, that I was ordered home to report to the Office of the Direc-tor of Military Aeronautics, Washington, , to be used in an advis-ory capacity on pursuit work; and with my chum, Major David , went to Carlstrom and Dorr Fields, Arcadia, Fla., where themost advanced pursuit and aerial gunnery schools in the country I was put on the Control Board and also made Engineer Officer atCarlstrom Field. After Major Petersons death, I was transferred to Information Group, Washington, , where I now am. [ 30]. STEPHEN SOHIER BIGELOW Sergeant, Foreign Legion, and Escadrille Lafayette, N 124,Group 13 Son of Joseph S. and Mary C. Bigelow; was born at Boston,March 18, 1894. He graduated from Groton in 1911, and fromHarvard College in 1915. He attended the Plattsburg TrainingCamp in 1915, and April 13, 1916, enlisted in the ForeignLegion at Paris, France. In June he entered the Air Service andwas trained at Dijon, Buc, Avord, Pau, Cazaux, and Plessis-Belleville; he received his Brevet as Military Aviator on Sept. 7, 1916, and on Oct. 18, he was brevetted as Pilote Aviateur No. was attached to the Escadrille Lafayette N 102, and later toN 124. On April 28, 1917, he was detailed with four others toact as garde dhonneur chosen to represent the Escadrille Lafay-ette, at the ceremonies performed at the monument of June 21 he had a miraculous escape from five enemy planeswhich attacked while he was protecting Fren
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