April 5, 2024
Original 5x7 Photo ACE WINSLOW & 1st JASTA 64 KILL 94th AERO SQUADRON 1918
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ORIGINAL WWI PHOTO - ORIGINAL TO THE TIME - NOT A COPY, SCAN, OR REPROQUANTITY: 1 - See the other original WWI photos that I have listed.SUBJECT: Original photo of Lt. Alan Winslow of the 94th "Hat in the Ring" Aero Squadron with the wreckage of his first aerial victory, a German plane from Jasta 64w, April 14, 1918, France.Photo from Lt. Goerge Holmes of Philadelphia, PA. Holmes was originally in Battery C of an Artillery Regiment in the 81st Division. When he arrived in France he was sent to Observer School in Tours, France, and then reassigned as an aerial observer to Flight 19 of the 258th Aero Squadron. With his pilot Benny, he flew in a Salmson A2A over the Western Front on recon missions and located targets for artillery. After the war he and the 258th Aero Squadron were part of the Army of Occupation in Germany.DATE: 1918 - photo does not glow under a black light.SIZE: 5" x 7"CONDITION: Very Good; see scans.BACK: Has descriptive note written; See second scan..SOURCE: From the archives of the World War History & Art Museum (WWHAM) in Alliance, Ohio. WWHAM designs and delivers WWI and WWII exhibits to other rmuseums. Our traveling exhibts include Brushes With War, a world class collection of 325 original paintings and drawings by soldiers of WWI, and Iron Fist, an HO scale model of the German 2nd Panzer Division in 1944 with
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