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Christmas dinner menu for the 24th Aero Squadron, circa 1918. Includes an illustration of the squadron emblem.Inscription on album page: "Christmas 24th Aero 1918."Part of a scrapbook containing items related to Sidney Van Wyck Peters' service with…

Menu for the 24th Aero Squadron's "Overseas Banquet" held at the Allied Officers Club, Bar-le-Duc, France, circa 1918. Includes an illustration of the squadron's emblem.Part of a scrapbook containing items related to Sidney Van Wyck Peters' service…

Newspaper clipping, "A worthy foe," from an unidentified publication, circa 1918. Reports on the death of fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen.Part of a scrapbook containing items related to Sidney Van Wyck Peters' service with the 24th Aero Squadron…

Pass issued to Sidney Van Wyck Peters by the Signal Corps Aviation School (San Diego, California), February 11, 1918.Part of a scrapbook containing items related to Sidney Van Wyck Peters' service with the 24th Aero Squadron during World War I, circa…

Photograph of a serviceman in flight gear, Post Field, Oklahoma, March 1918. A Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft is visible in the background.Inscription: "Post Field. March 1918."Part of a scrapbook containing items related to Sidney Van Wyck Peters'…

Newspaper clipping, "Former Seattle Packard salesman now gunnery instructor in aviation in Texas," from the Seattle Sunday Times, June 9, 1918. Includes printed photographs of Sidney Sid Van Wyck Peters. Part of a scrapbook containing items related…

Photograph of two servicemen in front of a destroyed building, Château-Thierry, France, July 1918.Inscription: "Chauteau-Thierry. July-1918. 141117."Part of a scrapbook containing items related to Sidney Van Wyck Peters' service with the 24th Aero…

Report, "Individual report of instruction," Air Service Report Training Section, August 30, 1918. Lists flight training details for Second Lieutenant Sidney Van Wyck Peters at the Third Aviation Instruction Center (Issoudun, France). Signed by…

German propaganda leaflet, "To the American soldiers of German descent," circa October 1918. The inscription notes that the leaflet was dropped at Vavincourt, France.Inscription: "German propaganda. Dropped at Vavincourt field in October 1918. 24th…

General Orders No. 17, Headquarters Air Service, First Army, American Expeditionary Forces, October 19, 1918. Credits First Lieutenant Louis A. Woitishek and Second Lieutenant Sidney Van Wyck Peters with downing a German Fokker aircraft. One typed…