94th Aero Squadron Collection
Object Details
- Names
- United States. Army. Air Service. 1st Pursuit Group. 94th Aero Squadron
- Former owner
- Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973
- Topic
- Aeronautics, Military
- Air pilots
- World War, 1914-1918
- Provenance
- Transferred from National Air and Space Museum Department of Aeronautics, 1986, NASM.1987.0005.
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- Summary
- The 94th Aero Squadron, one of the first American pursuit squadrons to operate over the Western Front and see combat, was highly publicized in American print media and became one of the most famous squadrons in the United States Army Air Service. This collection consists of material documenting the activities of the 94th Aero Squadron in France during World War I, and includes daily operations orders, combat reports, reconnaissance reports, citations and commendations, and lists of officers, pilots, and official victories of the unit.
- Biographical / Historical
- The 94th Aero Squadron, one of the first American pursuit squadrons to operate over the Western Front and see combat, was highly publicized in American print media and became one of the most famous squadrons in the United States Army Air Service. Several air aces and notable pilots served with the 94th Aero Squadron including Gervais Raoul Lufbery, Douglas Campbell, Reed Chambers, Harvey Weir Cook, James Armand Meissner, and Edward Vernon "Eddie" Rickenbacker, the United States' top scoring flying ace of World War I.
- Extent
- 0.25 Cubic feet (1 slim legal document box)
- Date
- 1918-1919
- Archival Repository
- National Air and Space Museum Archives
- Identifier
- NASM.1987.0005
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Military records
- Citation
- 94th Aero Squadron Collection, NASM.1987.0005, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by type of record, and is arranged chronilogically within each folder.
- Processing Information
- Arranged, described, and encoded by Jessamyn Lloyd, 2025.
- Rights
- Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
- Genre/Form
- Military records
- Scope and Contents
- This collection consists of material documenting the activities of the 94th Aero Squadron in France during World War I. These records were collected by Edward Vernon "Eddie" Rickenbacker and include daily operations orders, combat reports, reconnaissance reports, citations and commendations, and lists of officers, pilots, and official victories of the unit. Rickenbacker may have obtained some of the material in the collection from Mr. M. J. Grossman.
- Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Record ID
- ebl-1738351800787-1738351801052-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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