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  • 104th Aero Squadron
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  • The 104th Aero Squadron was a Air Service, United States Army unit that fought on the Western Front during World War I. The squadron was assigned as a Corps Observation Squadron, performing short-range, tactical reconnaissance over the V Corps, United States First Army sector of the Western Front in France, providing battlefield intelligence. After the 1918 Armistice with Germany, the squadron returned to the United States in June 1919 and became part of the permanent United States Army Air Service in 1921, when it was redesignated as the 13th Squadron (Attack) .
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Branch
  • 15
command structure
Role
  • Corps Observation
identification symbol
  • 125
Type
  • Squadron
identification symbol label
  • 104
Caption
  • 104
Dates
  • --08-25
Unit Name
  • 104
notable commanders
  • Capt. Clearton H. ReynoldsCapt. William R. HolcombeCapt. Dogan H. Arthur
Battles
  • 150
equipment label
  • Fuselage Code
aircraft recon
  • Salmson 2A2, 1918-1919
operations
  • --08-07
abstract
  • The 104th Aero Squadron was a Air Service, United States Army unit that fought on the Western Front during World War I. The squadron was assigned as a Corps Observation Squadron, performing short-range, tactical reconnaissance over the V Corps, United States First Army sector of the Western Front in France, providing battlefield intelligence. After the 1918 Armistice with Germany, the squadron returned to the United States in June 1919 and became part of the permanent United States Army Air Service in 1921, when it was redesignated as the 13th Squadron (Attack) . The current United States Air Force unit which continues its lineage and history is the 13th Bomb Squadron, assigned to the 509th Operations Group at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.