A History of the 17th Aero Squadron - Nil Actum Reputans Si Quid Superesset Agendum, December, 1918 (WWI Centenary Series)
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A History of the 17th Aero Squadron - Nil Actum Reputans Si Quid Superesset Agendum, December, 1918 (WWI Centenary Series) - Anon
CHAPTER I
ORGANIZATION AND TRAINING¹
THE 17th Aero Squadron came into being at the beginning of what is now known as the Air Service, on May 13, 1917, a month after war was formally declared by the United States. At that time it was called Company M,
later Company B.
Still later it became the 29th Provisional Aero Squadron, Aviation Section, Signal Corps, and then the 17th. Its entire enlisted personnel were volunteers, and a majority of them had come in
believing—the idea was sown broadcast by recruiting sergeants in various parts of the country—that they were to be eventually, not mechanics, but flying officers.
They came from thirty-five states of the Union, from Porto Rico, Canada, and Mexico, and they were among the first to arrive at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas—an aerodrome which was, at that moment, rather a project than a reality.
The squadron’s experience at Kelly Field was, in many respects, an augury of its future for, from that time on, it was always to be the first to try, or have tried upon it,
the experiments to which a new service inevitably gives rise. It was the first squadron sent to Canada to be trained by the British; the first squadron to go back to the fields near Fort Worth that were to be administered by British and American officers working together; the first completely trained squadron to be sent Overseas with its complete quota of pilots; the first squadron to be attached to British squadrons at the Front (and therefore the first in the battle line); and the first squadron to be equipped by the British and brigaded with them, in active service, under their command.
Having been the first to carry out these experiments, as well as others on which no stress need now be laid, it suffered all the handicaps which the objects of experiment commonly suffer. And the fact that the 17th Squadron finally proved itself so efficient and retained, to such a degree, its esprit de corps, when at last it began to take part, as a unit, in operations at the Front, speaks volumes for the character of those first volunteers. It speaks volumes too for their cheerful loyalty that, without rancor or bitterness, they carried on
—false as had been the ideas given them of what their duties were to be—when in France their friends, who enlisted later than they, turned up as pilots while they remained mechanics.
The credit for the record of a scout squadron naturally goes to the flying officers who have taken the risks and done the fighting, but no small part of it should go to the enlisted men, who have to be untiringly on the look-out for loose wires and hidden broken parts; who, in busy times, work all night long to have machines ready for a patrol at dawn; and who at best can have only the satisfaction that comes from making possible the deeds of other men. What pilots and enlisted men, working together in a spirit of conscious self-sacrifice, can do in spite of repeated discouragement, is made evident by this letter from Lieut. Gen. J. M. Salmond, G.O.C., R.A.F., to Gen. M. M. Patrick, Chief of the Air Service:
DEAR GENERAL PATRICK:
Now that the time has come when Nos. 17 and 148 Squadrons return to you, I wish to say how magnificently they have carried out their duties during the time they have been lent to the British Aviation.
Every call has been answered by them to the highest degree, and when they have arrived with you, you will have two highly efficient squadrons filled with the offensive spirit.
I should like to recommend, if you agree, that they be fitted with S. E. 5 machines. Their formation flying is good and I consider this type of machine would suit them.
Yours sincerely,
(Sgd.) J. M. SALMOND.
The results of the unconquerable determination to do their best that called forth General Salmond’s letter are shown with still greater force by the following facts, which give, in two words so to speak, the record of the 17th Squadron as a fighting unit for the period July 15—October 28. During fifty-one days on which we sent out offensive patrols over the lines, we destroyed and had confirmed fifty-four enemy machines and balloons and drove down out of control ten more, or in all a total of sixty-four. In other words, we destroyed or drove down 1.25 1/2 enemy aircraft for every fighting day of our active operations. For the same period we dropped from low altitudes, on hostile transport and infantry, 1,164 bombs and fired into them 31,806