WWI · Battle Death Record
Carter Ovington
First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Service · New York
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Carter Ovington
- Entered the Service From
- New York
- Rank
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army Air Service
- Unit / Regiment
- Escadrille SPA 85, French Air Service (Lafayette Flying Corps)
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- May 29, 1918
- Burial / Memorial
- Commemorated on the Tablets of the Missing, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial
- Grave
- Tablets of the Missing
Their story
Carter Landram Ovington, an American volunteer aviator, joined the French Service Aeronautique in 1917 and flew the SPAD VII with Escadrille SPA 85 as a member of the Lafayette Flying Corps. On May 29, 1918, during the German offensive toward Chateau-Thierry, his plane collided in mid-air with another aircraft from his squadron and crashed near the village of Lagery in the Marne; his body was never recovered.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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