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Thomas Gantz Cassady : ウィキペディア英語版 | Thomas Gantz Cassady
Captain Thomas Gantz Cassady was an American fighter pilot who served in two World Wars, and was successful in business during peacetime. ==World War I== Cassady graduated from Chicago University and went to France in the Ambulance Corps during Christmas break, 1916. Once there, on 3 February 1917, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion and transferred to aviation. By July 1917, he was receiving flight training; on 6 October 1917, Sergent Cassady was brevetted a pilot. On 26 December 1917, he was assigned to Escadrille 157, which was a Spad unit. He passed on to the United States Army Air Service in February 1918 to serve in the 103rd Aero Squadron. From there, he was once again posted to another French Spad unit, Escadrille 163. While serving here, he scored a run of five confirmed and three unconfirmed aerial victories, between 28 May and 15 August 1918, sharing them with William Ponder and James Connelly, among others.〔http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/cassady.php Retrieved on 7 April 2010.〕 He then transferred to the 28th Aero Squadron as a Flight Commander, and scored four more times between 14 September and 27 October 1918 using a Spad XIII, and sharing the honors with Martinus Stenseth and George W. Furlow among others.〔http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/cassady.php Retrieved on 7 April 2010.〕
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