French Breguet 14 B.2 bomber, the type used by the 9th Aero Squadron
Active
14 June 1917 – 22 July 1919
Country
United States
Branch
Air Service, United States Army
Type
Squadron
Role
Night Observation
Part of
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
Nickname(s)
"Bats"
Engagements
World War I Occupation of the Rhineland
Commanders
Notable commanders
Capt. George E. A. Reinburg Lt Samuel B. Eckert[1]
Insignia
9th Aero Squadron Emblem
Aircraft flown
Bomber
Breguet 14, 1918-1919, Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2, 1918-1919[1]
Fighter
Sopwith Camel, 1917 Sopwith Scout, 1917[1]
Trainer
Curtiss JN-4, 1917[1]
Military unit
Service record
Operations
First Army Observation Group Western Front, France: 26 August-11 November 1918[2]
Sorties: 381
Combat missions: 38
Enemy combats: Unrecorded
Killed: 1 Pilot, 2 Observers
Wounded: 4 Pilots, 1 Observer
Missing: 0
Aircraft lost: 12 [3]
The 9th Aero Squadron was an Air Service, United States Army unit that fought on the Western Front during World War I.
The squadron was assigned as an Army Observation Squadron, performing long-range, strategic night reconnaissance over the entire length of the United States First Army sector of the Western Front in France.[4] It was the only night reconnaissance squadron of the Air Service stationed on the Western Front, and the squadron's emblem reflects an aircraft, flying at night with searchlights searching for it in a IX pattern.
After the 1918 Armistice with Germany, the squadron was assigned to the United States Third Army as part of the Occupation of the Rhineland in Germany. It returned to the United States in June 1919 and became part of the permanent United States Army Air Service in 1921, being re-designated as the 9th Squadron (Observation).[3][5]
The current United States Air Force unit which holds its lineage and history is the 9th Bomb Squadron, assigned to the 7th Operations Group, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.[6]
^ abcdCite error: The named reference AFHRA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^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.
^ abSeries "E", Volume 2, History of the 9th and 10th Aero Squadrons. 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 28 August 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)
^Rogers, Brian. United States Air Force Unit Designations Since 1978. Hinkley, England: Midland Publications, 2005. ISBN 1-85780-197-0.
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