Walter Carl Simon
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| name =Walter Carl Simon
| image = Walter Carl Simon.jpg
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| caption = Walter Carl Simon, 1918
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|09|14}}{{cite web |url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/6877555 |title=Walter Carl Simon |website=Lives of the First World War |publisher=Imperial War Museums}}
| death_date = 16 May 1971
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| birth_place =New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
| death_place =Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
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| allegiance = {{flag|United States|23px}}
| branch = Royal Air Force (United Kingdom)
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| rank =2nd Lieutenant
| unit = Royal Air Force
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| battles = 50px World War I
| awards =Distinguished Flying Cross
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Lieutenant Walter Carl Simon (1890–1971) was a World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories.
Biography
Flying a Bristol F.2 Fighter for the British, he and his observer scored five victories on the single day of 30 July 1918; he thus became the first American "ace in a day". When the war ended, he went to Lima, Peru, where he was promoted to the rank of 1st Lieutenant and became Vice-director of the Naval Flying School at Ancon, headed by Captain Juan Swayne Leguia, former RAF pilot in World War I and son of Augusto B. Leguia, president of Peru.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/simon.php|title = Walter Carl Simon}}{{self-published inline|date=September 2016}}
See also
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References
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Sources of information
- The History of Peruvian Aviation
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Category:Military personnel from New Orleans
Category:American World War I flying aces
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