History of the 31st Aero CD

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‘Billy Bones - An Accounting of the 31^st Aero Squadron’

If you had found yourself in Issoudon, France at the Third Aviation Instruction Center with the American Air Service as a pilot trainee in 1918, it would be a matter of course that you come to Field Five. Landings, Spirals and Acrobatics were the daily meat here. Considered to be the advanced training phase Field Five had a wicked reputation for being "the field of graves" to many "would-be knights of the air."

The price of training 3,111 men at Issoudon was $27,045,395.53 in 1918 alone. This created an average cost per man of $8,693.47. If the war had continued through 1919 the projected total cost of training was expected to rise to about $40,000,000.00. At the Third Aviation Instruction Center" there were assigned as cadre 1,165 officers and 4,860 enlisted men to keep the training schedules on target and aircraft flying for the operations of its eventual 14 airfields. training both pilots and observers...this  is the history of the 31st Aero at Field Five of the 3rd A.I.C. Issoudon France 1917-19....

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