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NOTES ON OPERATIONS OF THE AIR SERVICE, FIRST ARMY FROM SETPTEMBER 1ST TO NOVEMBER 11TH, 1918, INCLUSIVE.

Enemy aircraft shot down and confirmed -- Airplanes 407, Balloons 53.

Our aircraft shot down -- Airplanes 199, Balloons 22.

Number of our planes on front November 11th, 1918 --Pursuit 283, Observation 212 and Bombardment 82. (D.H.4 - Libertys 75).

Total sorties during ARGONNE - MEUSE Offensives 15,566.

Total kilograms of bombs dropped during ST. MIHIEL and ARGONNE - MEUSE 
Offensives -- 108,924.

Total kilograms of bombs dropped during ARGONNE - MEUSE OFFENSIVE -- 77,828.

Photographs taken -- Sept. 1605, Oct. 2515, Nov. 484.

Reconnaissance Missions -- Sept. 650, Oct. 605, Nov. 184.

Missions for Artillery Co-operation -- Sept. 109, Oct. 151, Nov. 33.

Pilots credited as having brought down five or more enemy airplanes, or balloons.

|Major Harold E. Hartney|6| |1st Pursuit Group|
|Major Roul Lufberry|17|94th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|Captain E. V. Rickenbacker|26|94th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|Captain Hamilton Coolidge|8||94th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|Captain Reed Chambers|7||94th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|Captain Douglas Campbell|6||94th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|1st Lt. Harvy Cook|7||94th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|Major David Peterson|5|95th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|Captain H. R. Buckley|5|95th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|1st Lt. E. P. Curtis|6|95th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|1st Lt. L. Holden|7|95th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|1st Lt. James Knowles|5|95th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|1st Lt. Summer Sewall|6|95th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|Captain James E. Meissner|8|147th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|1st Lt. James A. Healy|5|147th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|1st Lt. Ralph O'Neill|6|147th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|1st Lt. Kenneth Porter|5|147th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|1st Lt. Frances Simmonds|5|147th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|2nd Lt. W. W. White|8|147th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|Captain J. C. Vasconcelles|6|185th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|1st Lt. Donald Hudson|6|27th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|1st Lt. Joseph Wehner|5|27th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|2nd Lt. Frank Luke |18|27th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group|
|2nd Lt. John MacArthur|5|27th Squadron|1st Pursuit Group||
|1st Lt. W. P. Erwin| |1st Squadron|1st Corps Obser. Group|
|1st Lt. A. E. Esterbrook| |1st Squadron|1st Corps Obser. Group|
|1st Lt. Byrne V. Baucon| |1st Squadron|1st Corps Obser. Group|