John Sidney Owens

Name:

John Sidney Owens

Country:

United States

Rank:

Lieutenant

Service:

United States Air Service

Units:

139^th Aero

Victories:

Born:

26 May 1898

Place of Birth:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Died:

14 January 1965

Place of Death:

Coral Gables, Florida

Cemetery:

Arlington National Cemetery
Section 37 Site 3493

A pilot with the 139th Aero Squadron, John Sidney Owens scored 5 victories flying the SPAD XIII in 1918. During World War II he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Air Corps. Owens returned to Pennsylvania when the war ended. On 11 September 1920 he won the A. J. Drexel-Biddle cup for Flying Model Contests.

Victories

	Date	Time	Unit	Aircraft	Opponent	Location
1	18 Sep 1918	1610	139^th	SPAD XIII	Pfalz D.III ¹	Pagny-sur-Moselle
2	18 Sep 1918	1610	139^th	SPAD XIII	Pfalz D.III ¹	Pagny-sur-Moselle
3	25 Sep 1918	1002	139^th	SPAD XIII	Rumpler C ²	Fleury-Damloup
4	26 Sep 1918	1140	139^th	SPAD XIII	DFW C ³	Bois de Consenvoye
5	10 Oct 1918	0905	139^th	SPAD XIII	Fokker D.VII ⁴	Brieulles

1	Shared with Lt HA Garvie, Lt Robert Lindsay, Lt GV Moy, Lt Wendel Robertson, Lt Karl Schoen, Lt RD Shelby
2	Shared with Lt GV Moy, Lt RO Seevers
3	Shared with Lt SJ DeFrance, Lt HS Garvie, Lt LH Germer, Lt Karl Schoen, Lt HR Sumner
4	Shared with Lt JC Bennett, Lt LH Germer

Books

American Aces of World War 1: by Norman Franks, Harry Dempsey (Illustrator) / Paperback / Osprey Publishing (September 25, 2001)
Over the Front: by Norman L. R. Franks, Frank W. Bailey / Hardcover / Grub Street the Basement (May 1992)
SPAD VII Aces of World War 1: by Jon Guttman / Paperback / Osprey Publishing (August 25, 2001)

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