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U.S. Army Air Service

Pilots of the U.S. Army Air Service assigned to Italy in WWI were under the command of Captain Fiorello LaGuardia and trained at the Italian facilities near Foggia, Italy.

Click on the links to read about U.S. Army "Foggiani" pilots 1^st Lt. DeWitt Coleman and 1^st Lt. James Bahl who were Killed-in-Action while engaging the enemy during the Battle of Vittorio-Veneto.  They were posthumously decorated with Italy's two highest military medals:the Medaglia d'Oro al Valor Militare and Medaglia d'Argento al Valor Vilitare, respectively.

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