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Colonel Willard Lucy, US Army Air Service 1917
For a friend, I am trying to track down information regarding his ancestor. Willard Lucy joined the US Army (Co "A", 21st Infantry) on 10 Feb 1912. He transferred to the Signal Corps on 10 Feb 1917 to get into aviation. He attended the Signal Corps Aviation School on North Island at San Diego, California, and apparently received his wings there. In late Fall 1917, he went with the American Expeditionary Force to England. Somewhere in the Lincoln area of the Midlands, he participated in training with the RFC. He went to France in Spring 1918, and particiapted in Montdidier-Noyon, Somme Offensive, Aisne-Marne, Champagne-Marne, St. Mihiel, and Meuse-Argonne campaigns. In October 1918, he was assigned to the 135th Aero Squadron.
After the war, he served at Mitchell Field, and then later in the Panama Canal Zone as a Master Sergeant Aviator and Base Sergeant Major. Recommissioned in 1931, he ended his career as Commander of Mather Field, Sacramento California.
Does anyone happen to have any information on him, or more specifically on the location and units of the US Army Air Service training with the RFC in the Lincoln area in late 1917-early 1918? Thanks for any input or references you can provide. Doc
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6 May 2005, 08:20 AM
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