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| Name: | Howard Clayton Knotts | Country: | United States | Rank: | Lieutenant | Service: | United States Air Service | Squadrons: | 17th Aero | Victories: | 6 | Born: | 25 August 1895 | Place of Birth: | Girard, Illinois | Died: | 23 November 1942 | Place of Death: | |
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| | Flying the Sopwith Camel, Knotts shot down six enemy aircraft in less than a month. Each of his victims flew the Fokker D.VII. On 14 October 1918, Knotts was shot down and captured. Enroute to a German prison camp, he set fire to a supply train, destroying seven Fokkers destined for the front. |
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