Original WWI U.S. Army Air Service (USAAS) Named Grouping of Personal Effects and Uniform Items For Sgt. Timothy Riordan, 14th Co., 2nd Air Service Mechanics Featured Item The ENGAGED 14 MAY 1843

The ENGAGED 14 MAY 1843 marking is still legible

There is overall peppering

was not the American bald eagle

a design in use for over 100 years

Original WWI U.S. Army Air Service (USAAS) Named Grouping of Personal Effects and Uniform Items For Sgt. Timothy Riordan, 14th Co., 2nd Air Service Mechanics Featured Item The ENGAGED 14 MAY 1843Original Items: Only One Grouping Available. The United States Army Air Service (USAAS) was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1918 and 1926 and a forerunner of the United States Air Force. It was established as an independent but temporary branch of the U. S. War Department during World War I by two executive orders of President Woodrow Wilson: on May 24, 1918, replacing the Aviation Section, Signal Corps as the