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| Name: |
Edgar Gardner Tobin |
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| Country: |
United States |
| Rank: |
Lieutenant |
| Service: |
United States Air Service |
| Units: |
94th Aero, 103rd Aero |
| Victories: |
6 |
| Born: |
07 September 1896 |
| Place of Birth: |
San Antonio, Texas |
| Died: |
10 January 1954 |
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| Place of Death: |
Lake Wallace; near Shreveport, Louisiana |
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Edgar Gardner Tobin joined the United States Army Signal Corps, Aviation Section, at Austin, Texas in May 1917. In July 1917, upon completion of ground school training at the University of Texas, he was sent overseas and received flight training in France. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 12 December 1917 and, following gunnery training in January 1918, he was joined the 94th Aero Squadron on 7 March 1918. Tobin was transferred to the 103rd Aero Squadron on 2 April 1918 and appointed Flight Commander in July 1918. He scored six victories flying the SPAD XIII and was the third highest scoring ace of his unit. After returning to the United States in December 1918, he was assigned to Kelly Field where he served as assistant to the officer in charge, Major Russell.
Returning from a duck hunting trip in snowy weather, he and eleven others died when their Grumman Mallard crashed into the trees of Wallace Lake on 10 January 1954. At the time of his death, Tobin was president of Tobin Aerial Surveys, the largest aerial mapping firm in the world. |
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| Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) |
| The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edgar Gardner Tobin, First Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vieville, France, July 16, 1918. While leading a patrol of three machines in the region of Vieville, First Lieutenant Tobin attacked an enemy formation of six single-seaters. He destroyed two himself and forced down a third out of control.
General Orders No. 99, W.D., 1918 |
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| Victories |
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Date |
Time |
Unit |
Aircraft |
Opponent |
Location |
| 1 |
11 Jul 1918 |
0755 |
103rd |
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Two-seater 1 |
E of Thiaucourt |
| 2 |
16 Jul 1918 |
1015 |
103rd |
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Pfalz D.III |
Vieville-en-Haye |
| u/c |
16 Jul 1918 |
1015 |
103rd |
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Pfalz D.III |
Vieville-en-Haye |
| 3 |
01 Aug 1918 |
1018 |
103rd |
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Two-seater |
Prinz Wurtemburg |
| 4 |
10 Aug 1918 |
2020 |
103rd |
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Fokker D.VII |
Thiaucourt |
| 5 |
11 Aug 1918 |
1005 |
103rd |
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Albatros C 2 |
Flirey |
| 6 |
28 Sep 1918 |
1330 |
103rd |
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Fokker D.VII |
Chatel-Chehery |
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| 1 |
Shared with Lt E B Jones |
| 2 |
Shared with Lt George Furlow, Lt VW Todd |
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| 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)
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