WW1 US95th First Pilots

The U.S. declares war on Germany

Joint Resolution Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial German Government and the Government and the people of the United States and making provision to prosecute the same.

Whereas the Imperial German Government has committed repeated acts of war against the Government and the people of the United States of America; Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, that the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.

CHAMP CLARK
Speaker of the House of Representatives

THOS. R. MARSHALL
Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate

Approved, April 6, 1917

WOODROW WILSON

The First Pilots of the WW1 US95th Aero Squadron

Headquarters

Third Aviation Instruction Center

Special Order No. 45
February 13th, 1918

9. The following named First Lieutenants A.S.,S.C.,U.S.R., are hereby relieved from duty with Headquarters Detachment and assigned to the 95th Aero Squadron for duty.

Blodgett, Richard
Buckley, Harold R.
Buford, Edward
Casgrain, Wilfred V.
Chalmers, William *
Curtis, Edward P.
Eastman, Joseph H.
Fisher, George
Hall, Herbert
Heinrichs, Waldo
Jones, Eugene B.
McLanahan, Alexander H.
McKeown, Stuart
Sewall, Sumner
Quick, Raymond B.
Rhodes, Carlyle
Richards, Lawrence
Wooley, C. H.

By order of Lt. Col. Kilner

H. W. Tittle
1st Lt. A.S.,S.C.,U.S.R.
Adjt.

*note: due to illness, Chalmers was left behind and replaced by William H. Taylor