Not to be confused with 100th Air Refueling Wing or 100th Fighter Squadron.
100th Aero Squadron
100th Aero Squadron - Squadron and Dayton-Wright DH-4s, Ourches Airdrome, France, November 1918
Active
20 August 1917 – 30 June 1919
Country
United States
Branch
Air Service, United States Army
Type
Squadron
Role
Day Bombardment
Part of
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
Engagements
World War I
Commanders
Notable commanders
Capt. Balmont P. Beverly[1]
Insignia
100th Aero Squadron Emblem
Aircraft flown
Bomber
Dayton-Wright DH-4, 1918-1919[1]
Trainer
Curtiss JN-4, 1917[1]
Military unit
Service record
Operations
2d Day Bombardment Group Western Front, France: 26 October – 11 November 1918[2]
No combat missions flown.
The 100th Aero Squadron was an Air Service, United States Army squadron during World War I. Ordered to serve on the Western Front, it boarded the SS Tuscania on 23 January 1918. The ship was torpedoed on 5 February and most of the survivors were rescued.
Re-formed in England the squadron was assigned as a Day Bombardment Squadron; its mission to perform long-range bombing attacks on roads and railroads; destruction of materiel and massed troop formations behind enemy lines.[3] It was assigned to the 2d Day Bombardment Group, United States Second Army.
Just before its first scheduled combat mission, the war ended. After the 1918 Armistice with Germany, the squadron returned to the United States in June 1919 and was demobilized.[1][4]
The squadron was never reactivated and there is no current United States Air Force or Air National Guard successor unit.
^ abcdSeries "E", Volume 15, History of the 97th-102d Aero Squadrons. Gorrell's History of the American Expeditionary Forces Air Service, 1917–1919, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
^Series "H", Section "O", Volume 29, Weekly Statistical Reports of Air Service Activities, October 1918-May 1919. Gorrell's History of the American Expeditionary Forces Air Service, 1917–1919, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
^"Maurer, Maurer (1978), The US Air Service in World War I, The Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF Washington" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
^Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the First World War, Volume 3, Part 3, Center of Military History, United States Army, 1949 (1988 Reprint)
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