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Frank Baylies [USA]

Name:Frank Leamon Baylies
Country:United States
Rank:Lieutenant
Services:French Air Service
Squadrons:Spa3, Spa73
Victories:12
Born:23 September 1895
Place of Birth:New Bedford, Masschusetts
Died:17 June 1918Killed In Action
Place of Death:Between Rollet and Orvillers
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Frank Baylies

Notes
Baylies joined the United States Ambulance Service in 1916. After seeing action on the Western Front and in Serbia, he enlisted in the French Air Service in May 1917. After earning a Pilot's Brevet, he was assigned to Spa73 at Dunkirk in November 1917. A month later, he joined the Storks Group as a pilot with Spa3. In early 1918, Baylies refused a commission with the United States Air Service, preferring to remain with the French. He was killed in action when his patrol encountered the Fokker Triplanes of Jasta 19. Initially buried at Rollet, his body was exhumed in 1927 and Baylies was reburied at the Memorial de L'Escadrill Lafayette in Paris.

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