5th Pursuit Group

5th Pursuit Group
Pilots of the 41st Aero Squadron, Lay-Saint-Remy Aerodrome, France, November 1919
Active1918-19
Country United States
Branch  Air Service, United States Army
TypeGroup
RoleCommand and Control
Part ofAmerican Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
Engagements
World War I

Occupation of the Rhineland
Insignia
41st Aero Squadron Emblem
138th Aero Squadron Emblem
141st Aero Squadron Emblem
638th Aero Squadron Emblem

The 5th Pursuit Group was an Air Service, United States Army unit that was assigned to the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. It was demobilized in Germany after serving with the Third Army Air Service as part of the American Occupation of the Rhineland in May, 1919. There is no modern United States Air Force unit that shares its lineage and history.[1]

  1. ^ Series "P", Volume 2, History of Air Service Units Attached to the 3d Army. Gorrell's History of the American Expeditionary Forces Air Service, 1917–1919, National Archives, Washington, D.C.