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Government Training Field Service as mechanic and crew chief for the duration of World War I.

After the war Pallissard was stationed at McCook Filed [[Field?]], Dayton, Ohio, for a time in engine repair and overhaul work. While there he obtained pilot license No. 391 in April, 1919. This was one of the new series of numbers issued by the government after taking ove the licensing from the Aero Club of America. He then had a tour of duty at Fairfield Air Intermediate Depot, Osborne, Ohio; Morrow Field, Detroit, Michigan; Memphis, Tennessee; Houston, Texas; Wabash, Indiana; and Service Aviation Corporation, Mt. Clemens, Michigan. During this period he was crew chief principally on large two- and three-motored bombers, including the then new Martin, Caproni, GAX, and LePere planes. This work included many long cross-country ferry trips between various government flying fields. In September, 1920, Pallissard was assigned by McCook Field to accompany Major R. W. Shroeder to Villes auvage, Etamps, France, as his field mechanic for the special Air Force Verville-Packard Race plan entered in the Gordon Bennett Race. Because of the engine trouble their entry did not win.
Pallissard returned to civilian life in 1928 and for a time made his residence in his home town of St. Anne, Illinois. After a time he was employed y the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corporation at LaGrande, Illinois, where he remained for ten years. During that time he continued to fly occasionally by renting a plane for practice at a local flying field. He retired at age 68, but kept his flying license and flew occasionally, just for the sport of it. Where for some time he had his residence at Broadview, Illinois, where he passed away very suddenly on May 24, 1960.
An Early Bird and flying pioneer, Joseph Pallissard devoted the majority of his life to aviation. During his active career he worked and flew with "many of the great" among early Air Service officers, and is deserving of a full measure of credit for his faithful contributions to the pioneer days of aviation. Possessed with a keen understanding of mechanics, his was a valued career of service to his country and the industry.

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