Activities of the 94th Aero Squadron (France) [1918]

(This film is silent)
National Archives Identifier: 24980
Local Identifier: 111-H-1479
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24980

From: Series: Historical Films, ca. 1914 - ca. 1936
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Other Title: Historical Film, No.1479

Scope and Content: Reel 1, flyers run to their Liberty planes during an alert. The planes take off from the Toul air base. Eddie Rickenbacker climbs into a Spad, flies DH-4's and Nieuports, and battles a German plane. Shows officers of the squadron, aerial views of the battlefield near Verdun, and planes stunting. Reel 2, Gens. Mitchell and Patrick decorate Rickenbacker and other squadron members with the D.S.C. The 101st Inf. passes in review at Rembercourt as Gens. Edwards and Liggett decorate flyers. Also shows Prof. Canby of Yale University and French officers.


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