The All American Pathfinders aeroplane unit was a squadron with 13 aircraft and associated road vehicles used in the " 1919 Air Service Transcontinental Recruiting Convoy" from

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to California that began on August 14, 191

The convoy was en route to California simultaneously with the

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and included a "Balloon and Airship section" and a "Searchlight and Field Lighting section" (the convoy commander, Major Ora M. Baldinger, operated the unit as a "mobile army post"

The convoy was over 1/2 mile long and was "''to secure accurate information to be used in connection with the carrying of mails by airplanes, and for military purposes, as well as commercial purposes.''" Airfields used by the squadron included: *August 16,

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—drill ground of the former Camp Colt, Pennsylvania

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—9 Curtiss planes used the fiel

*August 28,

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near Reading—2 Curtiss JN4 and a big Curtiss photographic plane were behind the main body of the convo

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