page_title: 213th Aero Squadron
hierarchical_section_title: 213th Aero Squadron
caption_attribution_description: English: 213th Aero Squadron, pilots and a SPAD XIII, Foucaucourt Aerodrome, France, November 1918
context_page_description: The 213th Aero Squadron was a United States Army Air Service unit that fought on the Western Front during World War I.
  The squadron was assigned as a Day Pursuit Squadron as part of the 3d Pursuit Group, First United States Army. Its mission was to engage and clear enemy aircraft from the skies and provide escort to reconnaissance and bombardment squadrons over enemy territory. It also attacked enemy observation balloons, and perform close air support and tactical bombing attacks of enemy forces along the front lines. After the 1918 Armistice with Germany, the squadron returned to the United States in June 1919 and was demobilized.
  The squadron was never reactivated and there is no current United States Air Force or Air National Guard successor unit.
context_section_description: The 213th Aero Squadron was a United States Army Air Service unit that fought on the Western Front during World War I.
  The squadron was assigned as a Day Pursuit (Fighter) Squadron as part of the 3d Pursuit Group, First United States Army.  Its mission was to engage and clear enemy aircraft from the skies and provide escort to reconnaissance and bombardment squadrons over enemy territory.  It also attacked enemy observation balloons, and perform close air support and tactical bombing attacks of enemy forces along the front lines. After the 1918 Armistice with Germany, the squadron returned to the United States in June 1919 and was demobilized.
  The squadron was never reactivated and there is no current United States Air Force or Air National Guard successor unit.
caption: Lt. Charles Grey (Center) and pilots of the 213th Aero Squadron, and a SPAD XIII, Foucaucourt Aerodrome, France, November 1918
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