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Operations Order No. 150, Operations Office, First Pursuit Group, September 26, 1918. Gives order concerning landing flares.

Operations Order No. 145, Operations Office, 94th Aero Squadron, September 24, 1918. Gives a schedule of operations for the 94th Aero Squadron, effective September 25, 1918. One typed page.

Operations Order No. 133, Operations Office, First Pursuit Group, September 18, 1918. Order for pilots to lessen their aggression during patrols and to not penetrate more than three kilometers into enemy territory. One typed page.

Operations Office memo No. 147, Operations Office, 94th Aero Squadron, September 25, 1918. Gives orders concerning enemy balloons. One typed page.

Office Memo No. 139, U.S. Air Service Paris, American Expeditionary Forces, June 2, 1918. 1st Lieutenant Hamilton Coolidge is relieved from his duty as Transfer Pilot and is assigned to the Airplane & Motor Division to act as an Assistant Test…

Newspaper clipping, "Coolidge of Boston new aviator ace," from unidentified publication, circa 1918. Commemorates Lieutenant Coolidge achieving Ace status. Also mentions Eddie Rickenbacker, Frank Luke, and J. C. Vascoucelles.

Manual for a Morane-Saulnier Type AI airplane, February 1918. The manual originally belonged to Dardenne Allyre, the French mechanic who is mentioned in a memo in Folder 7.

Photograph of a wrecked Nieuport 28 C1 aircraft (fuselage number G-209, tail number 4394), circa 1918. The verso inscription identifies the aircraft's pilot as Major Bonnell.Inscription on verso: "Maj. Bonnell's Nieuport."

Photograph of a wrecked Dorand Type A.R.1 D2 aircraft (tail number 658) on a shoreline, circa 1918.Inscription on verso: "A.R. crashed in ocean."

Photograph of a wrecked Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft (fuselage number C566) at an unidentified airfield, circa 1917-1918.