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Pilot who got first US air-to-air kill wasn't supposed to be there


Cpl. Lewis Lupton Kaylor/US Army Air Service
On February 5, 1918, Lt. Stephen Thompson recorded the first combat victory in US aviation history.
Thompson was in France with the US s 12th Aero Squadron, and he wasn t initially scheduled to be flying on the day he made history.
Lt. Stephen Thompson recorded the first combat victory in American aviation history 103 years ago. It certainly wasn t the most conventional way to get a win. Thompson was in a French aircraft, and he wasn t even supposed to be in the air!
Lt. Thompson was in France assigned to the United States 12th Aero Squadron. The Americans, at this time, were leaps and bounds behind Europe in the development and logistics of aerial warfare. The 12th Aero Squadron didn t even have their planes at the time, and they needed training before taking off into the fight. ....

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